EILEEN

Alyssa Bresnahan flawlessly introduces listeners to Eileen Dunlop, a complicated survivor who tempers her self-loathing with a warped and morbid sense of humor. Eileen works as a secretary in a gloomy New England boys’ reformatory by day and suffers miserably with an abusive alcoholic father by night. Bresnahan’s understanding of storytelling momentum helps her create the necessary tension this psychological thriller requires. Eileen’s erotic fantasies for a guard at work and her obsession with a female counselor lead to a complicated and twisted outcome that will shock listeners. Eileen’s peculiar thoughts, wild fantasies, and weird impulses are not easily manifested, but Bresnahan manages them wonderfully. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2016]