Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

 
I had a feeling, as I read this, of the plot being familiar... so I don't know if I ad heard it before or reading something similar.
It tells the story of Eileen, an unstable twenty-four-year old woman who works at a juvenile correctional facility for boys and lives with her alcoholic father in a shambles of a house. it chronicles the events of one week in winter where she has to leave town, never to return.
The writing is taut and evocative, the setting so specifically bleak.
I quite liked the description of Eileen - she is one of the  most pitiable and despicable characters I've ever read; neurotically self-absorbed, insecure but prone to feverishly obsessive behaviour.
The ending felt odd - quite abrupt.