Literary Fiction

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

A young woman in New York decides to spend a year in bed, sedating herself into oblivion with an arsenal of pills. Ottessa Moshfegh crafts a darkly comic portrait of privilege, numbness, and the desire to escape consciousness itself. Provocative and unsettling, a meditation on depression and self-obliteration.

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