My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“All my homegirls lived this shit.”

“I know this book gets mixed reviews but I personally LOVED it. Could not put it down. Prompted me to consider why I make the choices I make everyday, and how participating in daily life at a certain point becomes a choice.”

“The book is such a propelling read on its own, but Julia Whelan, GOAT of narrators, narrated the audiobook and adds even more to it somehow. This is a master class in bringing voice to the written word.”

“Why address your problems and process trauma when you can just sleep?!”

“Probably my favorite book of all time. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.”

“Laugh-out-loud hilarious, deeply engaging, extraordinary dialogue and impeccable pacing. It takes place in NYC in 2001, which certainly keeps you turning pages. Her wild characters are beautifully well-drawn, both cartoonish archetypes and also so specific & real.”

“3.5/5 stars. Definitely targeted more for the melancholic, self destructive mid to late twenties female. Reminds me of my obsession with Go Ask Alice and Burn Diaries. Set in early 2000s New York. A lot of the cultural references you had to be there. Easy read.”

“A dark and biting romp through a mental landscape that is both foreign and all too familiar. Moshfegh is superb at bubbling the worst of humanity to the surface while giving an uplifting little wink.”

“I recommend reading this book for times like these. I feel like the main character is in the same shoes.”

“Our Persian Jewish queeeen”

“encapsulates how i want to spend a year”

“i'm surprising myself with this book as an answer to your question - tonally it's very different from the virgin suicides in many ways: it's funny; it's decidedly written by a woman, from a woman's perspective; and it's a satire. still, i think there's a shared interest in exploring the plane of female sadness and a certain kind of resignation that both books have toward their ill-fated protagonists. both books describe their central women as both doomed and aesthetically aspirational, and in both books, the women/girls are always kept at some distance to us”

“about 40 pages left and i am immediately giving this book to my friend to read it after i finish”

“glad to see this freaky diva having her moment right now. Anything Ottessa does, I'm a fan of.”

“Who doesn't want to sleep through the Trump years? Brilliant.”

“Depressed White Woman has an Eating Disorder FINAL BOSS. Well worth it for the quack psychiatrist, hot take on art gallery culture, and the Whoppi Goldberg obsession.”

“Female character that does not conform to the stereotypes”

“at the height of my abuse of sleeping medications and weeks of no sleep, every word she wrote was a deliciously heavy void and a fuckboi of greedy perversion and wanton shame”

“This book is a banger. Y2K nostalgia, drug hazy joy ride.”

“Deeply dark, funny, and poignant.”

“hated that book sm couldn't finish it”