Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR,
Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus
Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New
York Times Bestseller "One of the most compelling protagonists
modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious
pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend
their way through sad and funny and strange toward something
genuinely profound." - Entertainment Weekly "Darkly hilarious . . .
[Moshfegh's] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud
while drawing blood." -Vogue 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 the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to
heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh
shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both
tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a
showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the
height of her powers.
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