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.

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 ...

Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh is still in the midst of adapting her hit novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” into a feature film. The sensational 2018 book follows an unnamed woman who, just ...

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.

“My Year of Rest and Relaxation” by Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin Press, 289 pp., $26 Ottessa Moshfegh will appear at 7 p.m. Friday, July 13, at Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle,free ...

Imagine, if you will, taking a bona fide break from the world. You know, rolling down the shades. Turning off the light. Crawling into bed, maybe with some Cheez Doodles. Pulling the covers over ...

The pill-popping is concerning. 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.

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 ...