My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Hardcover)

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To escape her existential dread (her parents are dead, her ex is a jerk, and she hates her best friend), the narrator hires an "irresponsible and weird" psychiatrist, hoping a raft of drugs will allow her to emerge from a sleep-induced cocoon a new person at the end of a year. This book is NOT for the faint of heart. There are jokes about suicide, sexual assault, and pooping on an art gallery floor. It will make you laugh the loud, ugly laugh you make when something catches you completely off-guard, and then you'll be unable to explain what was so funny.

— Anthony

Winter 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List


“Ottessa Moshfegh, more than any other writer I can think of, is great at capturing the feelings of despondency and malaise that come with living when and how we do. There are plenty of negative words to describe the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation—she’s detached and depressed, she’s cruel and unfeeling—but Moshfegh writes her with such care and specificity I felt like I could live in her head forever.”
— Theo Henderson, Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA



Product Details
ISBN: 9788954671033
ISBN-10: 8954671039
Publisher: Munhak Dongnae
Publication Date: March 20th, 2020
Language: Korean