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Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under…
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  • Barbshared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
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    🚀Unputdownable

    A good book but I felt empty after reading this one.

  • Farahshared an impression5 years ago
    🙈Lost On Me
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    Not an easy read this one 😔

  • Olga Gshared an impressionlast year
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Quotes

  • Darya Kushnirhas quoted5 years ago
    The Death of Marat was one of my favorite paintings. A man stabbed to death in the bathtub.
  • Arina Koriandrhas quoted5 years ago
    Die young and leave a beautiful corpse. Who said that?
  • Arina Koriandrhas quoted5 years ago
    I had no big plan to become a curator, no great scheme to work my way up a ladder. I was just trying to pass the time.

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