Eileen

Hardcover, 260 pages

English language

Published Aug. 18, 2015 by Penguin Press.

ISBN:
978-1-59420-662-7
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OCLC Number:
910867011

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So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really 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, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.

This is the story of how I disappeared.

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a …

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Subjects

  • Fathers and daughters
  • Prisons / Fiction
  • Prisons
  • Fathers and daughters / Fiction
  • Fiction