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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
3.0
A strangely compelling book about a very unlikeable woman explaining how she spends a year abusing sleeping medication and emotionally abusing those around her.
At first, I could not understand what the point of the book was. We follow our main character, who has no name, explain how deeply unhappy she is with her life even with all the privileges of being white, rich, attractive. She decides that lying to get prescription drugs and then taking a comically large dose of them to sleep for a year (with breaks of an hour or so between) is the only course of action. Despite there being no real reason to enjoy the book, I still found the sheer outlandish and often baffling explanations given by our main character to be entertaining. This book was a very easy read and one I'm surprised to say I enjoyed.
At first, I could not understand what the point of the book was. We follow our main character, who has no name, explain how deeply unhappy she is with her life even with all the privileges of being white, rich, attractive. She decides that lying to get prescription drugs and then taking a comically large dose of them to sleep for a year (with breaks of an hour or so between) is the only course of action. Despite there being no real reason to enjoy the book, I still found the sheer outlandish and often baffling explanations given by our main character to be entertaining. This book was a very easy read and one I'm surprised to say I enjoyed.