His father had abused him and his mother had been complicit in the abuse. He was based on the true story of a young man who had murdered his father and was serving life without parole. It wasn’t Eileen, it was the boy: Lee Polk. I didn’t really set out to write a noir novel and I don’t know if I exactly have.
I’m interested in taking establishment genre and turning it on its head. Then I didn’t touch it for maybe six months. I wrote the first draft in less than two months. I had to ask: what is the essence of a novel? OK, it changes every day but at that moment it was a good story in which the reader could attach herself to the psychology of the narrator and in which something insanely interesting would happen. It was a practical experiment but I also had placed a weird limitation on the project. Could I write a mainstream book a normal person could read? I thought: I’d like to do this because I am totally broke. Hollywood insiders describe it as the next Gone Girl. O ttessa Moshfegh is a novelist from Boston whose thriller, Eileen, has had rave reviews in the US and been optioned by film producer Scott Rudin ( The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Social Network).
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