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A lonely young girl working in a males' prison outside Boston in the first 60s is taken into an extremely strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing report of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction. So here we have been. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you understand me. I had been 24 years old then, and had employment that paid 57 dollars weekly as a kind of secretary at an exclusive juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I believe from it now as exactly what it was for all intents and purposes - a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, therefore to utilize his name for such a place feels appropriate. In weekly, I would try to escape from home rather than go back. This is actually the report of how I vanished. The Holiday season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young girl stuck between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the conversation of a nearby and a day job as a secretary at the males' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping. For the time being, she fills her evenings and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard known as Randy, and cleaning up her more and more deranged father's messes. When the glowing, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John comes on the world as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears initially to be a miraculously budding companionship. Inside a Hitchcockian twist, her devotion for Rebecca finally pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the traditions of Shirley Jackson and early on Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut book enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in modern-day literature.
