Summary of My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh: Conversation Starters

by Paul Adams

My Year of Rest and A Novel by Ottessa 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.

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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

•Foster a deeper understand of the book

•Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups

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•Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

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Genres: Fiction

65 pages, Paperback

Published May 25, 2021

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Reviews

[Rochelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this. In the beginning of the novel, I was drawn in by Moshfegh’s intriguing main character, and her portrayals of thoughts we would usually never utter out loud.

The book stagnated for me a little in the middle, but was still entertaining and I’m so glad I stuck with it.

The end of the novel gave me the feeling of emerging from a cool lake on a summer’s evening, the water smoothing down your hair and dripping off your eyelashes. I felt renewed.

Pain is not the only touchstone for growth. I was soft and calm and felt things.

[Eva Best · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite possibly the most hatable and privileged main character, with a story that seemed to go on way longer than a year. Didn’t enjoy as much as I thought I would, although the writing is easy to follow and sensory.

[Kylie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dark and humorous. Sad. Lonely. It did get repetitive but maybe that’s part of the point. The end couple of chapters were particularly good.