Explore these simple relaxation techniques and get started on … Ottessa Moshfegh's 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation,' her latest novel, is a story of rebirth in the wake of tragedy.
This one certainly did. Relaxation techniques also are often free or low cost, pose little risk, and can be done nearly anywhere. Some thoughts on isolation in relation to the Ottessa Moshfegh novel. Darkness seems to fall all day, hope comes in the form of a pill, socializing happens with a man behind a cash register, and where is the love. The unnamed narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation may be obscenely privileged, but her life is bleak. The story follows a rich young white woman in New York City at the turn of the millennium who is so over existence that she decides to take as many drugs as possible and sleep life away. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Every culture on the planet has at least one day of rest and recuperation.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary alienation can be. So I decided to write on the topic of rest and relaxation. What I read reminded me of the work of one of my favorite writers: Bret Easton Ellis. This is a traditional day of rest, and even those with Type A personalities need to chill at least one day a week. [Written during my year-end vacation] How is your transition going as you start the New Year? I am fortunate enough to have an extended transition period to mid-January to slowly slide into the start of activities in the New Year. She has it all planned out; a psychiatrist who would keep regularly supplying her pills, prepayment of bills and enough money in her bank account. “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” is about what happens when Moshfegh’s 24-year-old narrator becomes intentionally addicted to antidepressants and other meds and, more centrally, to … I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. 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 … I like a book that has a way with all my emotions. My year of rest and relaxation is a story of a 26 year old woman who decides to take a year off.. 'life' basically and hibernate. She was neglected by her parents (both now dead), maintains an on-off relationship with a ‘reoccurring ex-boyfriend’ who treats her like shit, and has one friend, Reva, whom she despises. Yet, despite these failings, My Year of Rest and Relaxation remains a compelling read: Moshfegh does make a radical challenge to the excesses of American capitalism and forces into a profound reckoning with a complex female lead who embodies some of the paradoxes and trade-offs associated contemporary womanhood. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. In her new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Moshfegh pushes the question of how “unlikeable” a character can get even further. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Reading MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION is anything but restful.