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Review of ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’

Sadness is relative, and this is the overwhelming theme in Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation. In the year 2000, a young woman has everything one might need to be happy. A recent Columbia graduate in her 20s, enviably thin and beautiful even at her worst, she lives in New York’s…

Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is the kind of writer who seems to know a secret about the world around us—and fans at her book events are hoping she’ll share it. We spoke with the author about book touring and more.

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