Book · 2018 · Fiction
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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This was a book that we were talking about for months.
The best things said about it
That's the main character's plan in the novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
I will let you read from the book so that we can hear in your own words in your own reading a little bit of My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
And then you also talked about a Tessa mosag my year of rest and relaxation the drug in that is in forol.
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh is a darkly comic and provocative novel about a privileged young New York woman who attempts to hibernate for an entire year using a cocktail of heavy psychiatric pharmaceuticals. On The Book Review, host Pamela Paul repeatedly featured the novel while welcoming Ottessa Moshfegh to the program to discuss her writing, read excerpts aloud, and explore the psychological depths of the detached protagonist. Gilbert Cruz and Emily Aken also discussed the novel on the podcast, highlighting it as a major literary talking point that sparked months of intense debate among critics and readers alike, while noting its inclusion of the fictional sleep-inducing drug Inamorata. Furthermore, MJ Franklin brought up Moshfegh's work on The Book Review during a book club conversation about Percival Everett's Erasure, comparing Moshfegh's satirical and sharp literary approach to other contemporary works tackling modern alienation and identity. Through these ongoing critical discussions, Moshfegh's novel has cemented its status as a defining contemporary satire on modern burnout, emotional numbness, and the desperate, illusory pursuit of peace through absolute withdrawal from society.
Every mention
Pamela Paul and the title again is my year of rest and relaxation by otessa mosag otessa 4
“that's the main character's plan in the novel my year of rest and relaxation”
“her latest novel is called my year of rest and relaxation Essa thanks so much for being here”
“I will let you read from the book so that we can hear in your own words in your own reading a little bit of of my year of rest and relaxation”
“and the title again is my year of rest and relaxation by otessa mosag otessa”
Emily Eakin this was a book that we were talking about for months there were a lot of such so many good books this year… 1
“this was a book that we were talking about for months there were a lot of such so many good books this year but I wanted to talk about my year of rest and relaxation by otessa mosag”
Gilbert Cruz and then you also talked about a Tessa mosag my year of rest and relaxation the drug in that is in forol 1
“and then you also talked about a Tessa mosag my year of rest and relaxation the drug in that is in forol”
MJ Franklin I also wanted to mention one person who I think is doing something similar to what monk is doing in the boo… 1
“I also wanted to mention one person who I think is doing something similar to what monk is doing in the book and that is Essa mbag who wrote my year of rest and relaxation”
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
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