My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.” ...

Imagine, if you will, taking a bona fide break from the world. You know, rolling down the shades. Turning off the light. Crawling into bed, maybe with some Cheez Doodles. Pulling the covers over ...

Imagine this: You have a year to do whatever you want. 365 days of free time. What would you do? I thought long and hard about this question when I started reading “ My Year of Rest and Relaxation” by ...

Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh is still in the midst of adapting her hit novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” into a feature film. The sensational 2018 book follows an unnamed woman who, just ...

Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh is still in the midst of adapting her hit novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” into a feature film.. The sensational 2018 book follows an unnamed woman who, just ...

If you thought the internet went wild at the prospect of an Eleven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo adaptation, wait until they hear about the movie version of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Yep, an ...

MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION. By Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press) The story An unhappy woman in her 20s resolves to escape the world by sleeping for a year.Hibernation proves more complicated ...

4. C onnection to the title: The title of the book, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," implies a deliberate and extended period of rest. The first line hints at the protagonist's intention to ...

Before my life became sleeping 14 hours a day like my idol, Dakota Johnson, I used to wake up for my draining routine and wish I could just become one with my mattress. No, I don't mean figuratively.

I’d already paid a year of property taxes on my apartment and on my dead parents’ old house upstate. Zoned out on Xanax, Ottessa Moshfegh’s unnamed anti-hero is living the “goblin-mode HOME ...

The My Year of Rest and Relaxation author on feeling used, becoming an internet symbol for detachment, and how her new book has lightened her load of dead bodies. Listen On now: ...