Yet, it is important that Moshfegh sets “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” at this century’s opening, before smartphones, tablets, tweeting, Googling and Instagramming became ubiquitous.

As she did so masterfully in her other books, with “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” she’s both pushing boundaries and testing our assumptions about what it means to be a modern woman, one ...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is her hyper-articulate account of this disturbing, ultimately moving "self-preservational" project. You might call it a rest-oration drama.

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 ...

Imagine this: You have a year to do whatever you want. 365 days of free time. What would you do? I thought long and hard about this question when I started reading “ My Year of Rest and Relaxation” by ...

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It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question.

There are two ways of looking at Ottessa Moshfegh’s deceptively titled novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”: It’s either an artful sendup of our self-absorbed consumer culture and the ...

Through “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” Moshfegh contends the only real control any of us has when catastrophe hits is whether we choose to jump to our deaths. Frank Tempone is a freelancer.

But it's not Moshfegh's biggest concern in "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," a darkly comic novel that makes something new out of familiar themes of disenchantment. Her biggest concern is existence.

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 ...