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

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: by Ottessa Moshfegh | 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...