![]() At first, I was completely uninterested with the plot, but I continued to attempt to finish it so that I could discuss and analyze it with my peers. This year-long ritual is riddled with physical and emotional difficulties, but it ultimately evokes a transformation of our narrator into a new woman, one who learns to appreciate true self-care and the importance of healthy relationships.Īfter seeing mixed reviews online for months, I decided to give this book a try. Tuttle, along with her overconsumption of various prescribed sedatives, such as the fictitious “infermiterol”. This mission, of course, is aided by her peculiar therapist, Dr. ![]() In spite of all of this, our narrator is deeply unsatisfied with her life, so she embarks on a journey to sleep for an entire year under the guise of “self-care”. ![]() She works a low-effort job at an art gallery (hence the photo of Portrait of a Young Woman in White on the cover), is a recent graduate of Columbia University, has a supportive best friend (who she secretly resents), and is left a generous inheritance after both of her parents died within weeks of one another. This novel features an unnamed narrator who seems to have every privilege in existence, including, beauty, wealth and love. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a controversial, yet captivating novel by American novelist Ottessa Moshfegh. ![]()
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