book-informationMy Year of Rest and Relaxation (4)AuthorOttessa MoshfeghGenreLiterary Fiction, Dark Comedy, Psychological Fiction, SatireSynopsisA darkly comic novel about a young woman who attempts to hibernate her way through a year of life by heavily medicating herself in her Upper East Side apartment. With a Columbia degree, a trust fund, and an unethical psychiatrist supplying her pills, the protagonist embarks on a radical experiment to sleep away her trauma and emerge transformed. Moshfegh crafts a provocative satire about privilege, depression, and the pursuit of oblivion in millennial-era New York.