The release date for the English version of 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by
Ottessa Moshfegh is Jun 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A book about a young lady trying to escape the evils of the world by going into a long slumber with the assistance of one of the worst doctors in literary history and the assortment of medications she prescribes, from one of our bravest, most acclaimed new literary voices.
I all, our narrator ought to be content, right? 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 it's not only the death of her parents, the way her Wall Street lover abuses her, or her sadomasochistic bond with Reva—there's a black and empty hole in her heart. In a city brimming with riches and opportunity in the year 2000, what could possibly go so horribly wrong?
A compelling response to that query is provided by My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Moshfegh shows us how understandable, even essential, alienation may be via the account of a year spent under the influence of a very insane concoction of pharmaceuticals meant to rehabilitate our heroine from her alienation from this world. It is a demonstration of the talents of one of our leading authors at the pinnacle of her career—tender and darkly hilarious, ruthless and sympathetic.