Add its hint of unreliable narration, and Eileen might appear to be jostling to enter Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl territory. That was my prime motivation for writing Eileen. And I still feel like I’m playing it.”She didn’t want to “keep her head down” and “wait 30 years to be discovered … so I thought I’m going to do something bold. So … it started out as a fuck-you joke, also I’m broke, also I want to be famous. “And I have a feeling she’s angry with me for talking behind her back.”• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh is published by Vintage.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2016 12:00 UTC