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I'm not interested in being nice or fitting in"
Author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her novel, Eileen. The book has received critical praise in the United States and the film rights have already been optioned. Set in the 1960s, Eileen is about an unhappy young woman who lives with her alcoholic father in a place called Xville.
Picture: Ottessa Moshfegh
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