A deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction), Ottessa Moshfegh

Read THE razor-sharp satire that everyone on TikTok is talking about…

On the surface, our narrator has everything you could want in life. She’s young, beautiful, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.

But there is a vacuum in her life and she’s got the perfect solution. She’s going to take a year under sedation to relax and hide away from the world.

What could possibly go wrong?

Blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, is the perfect read to aid your pandemic burnout.

PRAISE FOR MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION–

‘The book that everyone is talking about’ The Times

‘Diamond-hard entertainment’ Guardian

‘Electrifying…compelling…Moshfegh’s protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary’ Vanity Fair

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsell-ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.