My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents,... more
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Ben Collins Favorite book of the decade. https://t.co/CRcfp9f6Sq (Source)
Claire Diaz Ortiz @racheld great book (Source)
Lauren Mechling The friendship in it is very sweet, actually: it’s about two women, one of whom doesn’t have a name, and her best friend, Reva. They’re both brilliant comic characters, but Reva really lived on with me. Ottessa Moshfegh has this ability to say so much with little spiky details that linger. (Source)
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation is ranked in the following categories:
- #99 in 2018
- #97 in 9/11
- #92 in Depression
- #80 in Drugs
- #39 in New York
- #58 in New York City
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