In this second novel, Moshfegh takes us back to 2000, a year most of us don’t remember or weren’t even alive for. Her subconscious takes charge, and causes the exact emotional confrontations that the character is wanting to avoid Despite being published back in 2018, My Year has since been scooped up as one of the darlings of ‘booktok’ – the community of book lovers on TikTok – and has subsequently branched out to a younger audience. Moshfegh’s work has always been well praised, with her debut novel Eileen nominated for several awards. Running on a cocktail of drugs, the character takes us deeper and deeper into her plan to sleep for a year to heal herself from the traumas of her past. But weeks ago I had frenzied dreams, my days blurred into one another, and was overwhelmed by a desperate, desperate desire for sleep, much like Moshfegh’s narrator.Įxcept my ordeal was from my body fighting off Covid, whereas Moshfegh’s character inflicts this misery upon herself. I’m a 20-year-old student journalist trying to pass my degree in a small town in the Midlands, 21 years later. She’s a 27-year-old Columbia graduate/socialite (of sorts) in new millennium New York. Ididn’t think that I would ever be able to relate to Ottessa Moshfegh’s protagonist in My Year of Rest and Relaxation. TW: eating disorders, drug abuse, suicide
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