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 ...

The unnamed narrator of Moshfegh’s new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, has negative fucks ... Fired from her job at a Chelsea art gallery for napping in the storeroom, the sleeper has ...

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 ...

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 ...

But it's not Moshfegh's biggest concern in "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," a darkly comic ... here — the narrator quits her job at a tony art gallery in gross-out fashion.