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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
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A novel by Ottessa Moshfegh about an unlikeable main character with an obsession with sleep, which is being adapted into a film by Yorgos Lanthimos.
A novel about a young woman's attempt to hibernate from the world by sleeping through an entire year using a cocktail of drugs, exploring themes of isolation, grief, and the pursuit of a clean slate.
A novel about an extremely unlikeable main character and her obsession with sleep, which makes her relatable to many. Yorgos Lanthimos is adapting it into a film.
A book that truly blew away the narrator with its content.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.