My Year of Rest and Relaxation: by Ottessa Moshfegh | Conversation Starters

By dailyBooks

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: by Ottessa Moshfegh | Conversation Starters

She can well afford to rest the whole year surviving on the inheritance she gets from her dead parents, and she has unemployment benefits. Hoping to come out transformed into a better person, our unnamed protagonist intends to spend the whole year sleeping in her apartment as a form of the rest cure. She finds a psychiatrist on the yellow pages and gets a steady prescription of sleeping pills, psychotropic drugs, and anti-anxiety drugs. As she starts her year-long rest and relaxation, things happen. How can she find the healing and transformation she needs?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a New York Times bestseller and the second novel of Otessa Moshfegh, one of the most admired new novelists today. Her debut novel, Eileen, is included in the 2016 Booker Prize’s shortlist.

A Brief Look Inside:

EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.
These questions can be used to..

Create Hours of Conversation:
• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Mar 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9788832541106

Book preview

Answers

Introducing My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a novel by Otessa Moshfegh. It is a critically acclaimed work that tells the story of a lonely young woman’s desire to hibernate from the world in the hope of finding solutions to her existential problems.

The novel's narrator is a 26-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University and holds a job at an art gallery. She gets caught sleeping on the job one day and she decides that instead of making it up to the gallery owner or finding another job, she will spend the whole year sleeping in her apartment as a form of the rest cure. To do this, she finds a psychiatrist on the yellow pages and gets a prescription of sleeping pills, psychotropic drugs, and anti-anxiety drugs. She starts her year-long rest and relaxation but things happen. She gets visits from her best friend who mistreats her and gets her own dose of mistreatment. Her boyfriend who works at Wall Street comes by only when he wants to use her. She can well afford to rest the whole year—she survives on the inheritance she gets from her parents who are now dead, and she has unemployment benefits. Hoping to come out