Ottessa Moshfegh’s Bleak Humor Guides a Dizzying NYC Drug Haze in ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’
by Wayne Catan
Aug 17, 2018
2 minutes
Like a hummingbird hovering in cold weather during a self-induced torpor, the protagonist of , a 20-something Ivy League, orphaned cutie, intentionally hibernates for one year in a drug-induced “sleep diet,” hoping her soul wounds heal and trusting that the world will be a better place when she awakens. First-time readers will marvel at her ability to write such a saturnine story in such a droll, then took a few Lunestas.” At this point, the reader’s own GABA receptors and endorphins are cross-firing along with the pill-popping narrator’s.
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