She has taken to movies and drugs after their death – Whoopi Goldberg is her favorite.įor starters, if you dislike literature that has dark humor, icky descriptions of all bits of life that are not glossy, this book is not for you. They have been largely indifferent to her existence and her childhood hasn’t been really happy. Her parents have died recently – dad of cancer and mom of overdose. Ottessa’s heroine also has an on-again-off-again boyfriend Trevor who treats her terribly. Reva is extremely materialistic and jealous of our narrator (“ No fair“, as she would say always when her friend gets something she doesn’t). There is Reva, our narrator’s best (and only) friend. Tuttle who prescribes her all kinds of medications without a check. She has an inheritance that can allow her to sleep for a whole year in an apartment in Manhattan. The story is set in the 2000s, with our narrator being a young, thin, beautiful, Columbia graduate. Alongside ridiculous is an insight into the heart and spirit of a tender, vulnerable, and exhausted woman. The story premise sounds ridiculous: Our unnamed character decides to hibernate for a year to sleep away from her depression and wake up a new person. ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ by Ottessa Moshfegh is easily one of the oddest books I have read.
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