My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.” The characters in ...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is her hyper-articulate account ... consists of popping pills — a buffet of more than two dozen name brand meds. This quickly gets tiresome, and more soporific ...

The privileged, 20-something WASPy narrator of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” loses her job at an art gallery, has disappointing encounters with men, loathes a friendship with a social ...

It’s hard to know how much cheer to take from that, given that My Year of Rest and Relaxation reads a lot ... and the pretentious art gallery where she works, selling “canned counterculture ...

If this premise piques your curiosity, you’ll get quite a kick out of Ottessa Moshfegh’s second novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation ... and pretentious fine art studio in Chelsea ...