My Year of Rest and Relaxation

The book that everybody’s talking about… I read it and was entranced. * The Times *This is the first book I couldn’t put down this year… Almost offensive with its close-to-the-bone truths, it’s shockingly relatable. And legitimately laugh-out-loud funny. Ottessa Moshfegh is sharp, savage and hilarious. – Isabel Dexter * Elle *The superabundantly talented…Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish… she is always a deep pleasure to read. * New York Times *My Year of Rest and Relaxation is whip-smart, continuously compelling, and acerbic in all the right ways. * Daily Telegraph *Electrifying… [Moshfegh] is adept at crafting compelling female characters who violate the rules of femininity… Moshfegh’s protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary. * Vanity Fair *A relentlessly savage fable of privilege and pain… While we’re laughing, we feel disgust. It’s a combination that makes for diamond-hard entertainment. * Guardian *Darkly hilarious… [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood. * Vogue, Must-Read Books of 2018 *The best literary novel (and best book, full stop) that I read in 2019 was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. It is that incredibly rare book hyped as being “hilarious” which is actually funny… It’s also a devastating satire of WASP culture, psychiatrists and New York. – Adrian McKinty * Sunday Independent Books of the Year *[My Year of Rest and Relaxation is] a laugh-out-loud page-turner… it’s also the best 9⁄11 novel I’ve read. * Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2018 *Moshfegh’s blackly funny new novel… [hits] multiple marks at once: as an art-school prank, a between-the-lines tale of displaced grief and a pitiless anatomy of gender injustice, it also offers… a dark state-of-America fable. * Observer *

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.