My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Reviews / Votes

The book that everybody's talking about... I read it and was entranced. * The Times * This is the first book I couldn't put down this year... Almost offensive with its close-to-the-bone truths, it's shockingly relatable. And legitimately laugh-out-loud funny. Ottessa Moshfegh is sharp, savage and hilarious. -- Isabel Dexter * Elle * The superabundantly talented...Moshfegh's sentences are piercing and vixenish... she is always a deep pleasure to read. * New York Times * My Year of Rest and Relaxation is whip-smart, continuously compelling, and acerbic in all the right ways. * Daily Telegraph * Electrifying... [Moshfegh] is adept at crafting compelling female characters who violate the rules of femininity... Moshfegh's protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary. * Vanity Fair * A relentlessly savage fable of privilege and pain... While we're laughing, we feel disgust. It's a combination that makes for diamond-hard entertainment. * Guardian * Darkly hilarious... [Moshfegh's] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood. * Vogue, **Must-Read Books of 2018** * The best literary novel (and best book, full stop) that I read in 2019 was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. It is that incredibly rare book hyped as being "hilarious" which is actually funny... It's also a devastating satire of WASP culture, psychiatrists and New York. -- Adrian McKinty * Sunday Independent **Books of the Year** * [My Year of Rest and Relaxation is] a laugh-out-loud page-turner... it's also the best 9/11 novel I've read. * Times Literary Supplement **Books of the Year 2018** * Moshfegh's blackly funny new novel... [hits] multiple marks at once: as an art-school prank, a between-the-lines tale of displaced grief and a pitiless anatomy of gender injustice, it also offers... a dark state-of-America fable. * Observer *