--- product_id: 78723910 title: "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" price: "FREE" currency: PAB in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.pa/products/78723910-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation store_origin: PA region: Panama --- # My Year of Rest and Relaxation **Price:** FREE **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** My Year of Rest and Relaxation - **How much does it cost?** FREE with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.pa](https://www.desertcart.com.pa/products/78723910-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, desertcart ,Vice, Bustle , The New York Times , The Guardian , Kirkus Reviews , Entertainment Weekly , The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” — Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. Review: IF YOU GET IT YOU GET IT, IF YOU DON’T THAN YOU DON’T *SPOILER FREE REVIEW* - Keep in mind: This is not a spoiler because the text verbs and choice of words identifies that the narrator is speaking PAST TENSE. The book starts off with her remembering the said year when her slumber began. These events ALREADY HAPPENED — we are learning them from her - a time frame beyond the title. Many of the reviews I’ve read criticized the book for being redundant, disgusting, or confusing. Mentions of ableist due to talks of retardation, etc. I don’t see it that way. That language reflects who the main character is: blunt, short-worded, harsh, and unfiltered. We learn this from the very beginning. Yes, this book delivers exactly what the summary promises. Our main character is sleeps away a year due based off many reasons to her. HOWEVER—if you’ve ever experienced depression or serious mental health struggles, you understand where she’s coming from. And I mean real depression, grief, apathy, disgust with the world—not simply “being sad” or “needing to get a grip.” Her attempt to drug herself into a year-long sleep is exaggerated, but not so unrealistic when you consider her mental state. Her end goal was to wake up as a new person. Believes that this project will set her up to be ready to “live again” when she awakens. Why does this matter? If you have ever: • Grieved: that made others uncomfortable • Felt annoyed/overwhelmed others concern • Realized too late what you had • Experienced true emotional numbness …then you understand this narrator. She has a nihilistic view of the world—apathy, emptiness, and a desire to escape without wanting to die. TONE: flat, emotionless, and repetitive. Why? Because that is how the narrator felt during that era. She is speaking from reflecting on a time in her life that she numbed from. This book clearly creates a split in readers depending on their life experiences and expectations: Opinion A: Enjoyed the book, appreciates the darkness, bleakness, and irony, understands the narrator’s background. Opinion B: Hated the book, found it gross, dehumanizing, regrets buying it, and believes it glorifies drugging oneself into oblivion. Opinion C: Neutral, found it okay, nothing special, nothing terrible. It’s obvious the author wrote this for a specific audience. She beautifully captures how life catches up fast, how people change, and how certain experiences shape us. DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TYPICAL “coming-of-age” novel. This is NOT that. This is narrating a past event where she slept for a whole year and what she got out of it. Most average readers are not the target audience. If you prefer happy endings, or filtered positivity, this is not your book. If you read the summary and then feel shocked that you are reading darkness… I’m not sure what to tell you. The narrator is also clearly OLDER RETELLING THE PAST: indicates she was (x) amount of years old during that year of her project. She was young and not where society expects emotional maturity or closure. She’s counting to her mistakes and behavior in ways that are messy or socially unacceptable. That’s real life. Things happen & it changes people. This novel simply shows what usually happens behind closed doors and within the mind. ALL IN ALL: I loved this book. I understand the main character. The juxtaposition and character foils work well. It’s straightforward with predictable outcomes—but that’s exactly what the summary sets up, so I don’t understand why some reviewers are confused. Sometimes it takes a jarring, painful awakening to make you feel differently about living. Review: What did I just read? - One star for the beginning of the book, one star for the middle, no star for the end, one star for the beautiful prose, and one for keeping me engaged in a book that was about a woman in the throes of depression, bent on self-destruction, and the lengths she will go to to sleep her life away. I can honestly say that I have never read anything like this. The main character is a self-absorbed sadomasochist, but I felt sorry for her anyway. I hated the way she treated her friend, Reva, but I came to understand why she did it; I hated the way she allowed her - boyfriend? Hook-up? Abuser? - Trevor, to mistreat her, but I came to understand why she did that, too. The beginning and middle of the story hummed along but then the third act felt rushed and out of sync. Perhaps the author painted her characters into a corner and could see no way out other than the ending, but I felt cheated. Glad I read it, however, and I will definitely consider other books by Ms Moshfegh. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #530,813 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #27 in Dark Humor #42 in Self-Help & Psychology Humor #343 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 23,220 Reviews | ## Images ![My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81i3Phr33uL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ IF YOU GET IT YOU GET IT, IF YOU DON’T THAN YOU DON’T *SPOILER FREE REVIEW* *by B***I on November 22, 2025* Keep in mind: This is not a spoiler because the text verbs and choice of words identifies that the narrator is speaking PAST TENSE. The book starts off with her remembering the said year when her slumber began. These events ALREADY HAPPENED — we are learning them from her - a time frame beyond the title. Many of the reviews I’ve read criticized the book for being redundant, disgusting, or confusing. Mentions of ableist due to talks of retardation, etc. I don’t see it that way. That language reflects who the main character is: blunt, short-worded, harsh, and unfiltered. We learn this from the very beginning. Yes, this book delivers exactly what the summary promises. Our main character is sleeps away a year due based off many reasons to her. HOWEVER—if you’ve ever experienced depression or serious mental health struggles, you understand where she’s coming from. And I mean real depression, grief, apathy, disgust with the world—not simply “being sad” or “needing to get a grip.” Her attempt to drug herself into a year-long sleep is exaggerated, but not so unrealistic when you consider her mental state. Her end goal was to wake up as a new person. Believes that this project will set her up to be ready to “live again” when she awakens. Why does this matter? If you have ever: • Grieved: that made others uncomfortable • Felt annoyed/overwhelmed others concern • Realized too late what you had • Experienced true emotional numbness …then you understand this narrator. She has a nihilistic view of the world—apathy, emptiness, and a desire to escape without wanting to die. TONE: flat, emotionless, and repetitive. Why? Because that is how the narrator felt during that era. She is speaking from reflecting on a time in her life that she numbed from. This book clearly creates a split in readers depending on their life experiences and expectations: Opinion A: Enjoyed the book, appreciates the darkness, bleakness, and irony, understands the narrator’s background. Opinion B: Hated the book, found it gross, dehumanizing, regrets buying it, and believes it glorifies drugging oneself into oblivion. Opinion C: Neutral, found it okay, nothing special, nothing terrible. It’s obvious the author wrote this for a specific audience. She beautifully captures how life catches up fast, how people change, and how certain experiences shape us. DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TYPICAL “coming-of-age” novel. This is NOT that. This is narrating a past event where she slept for a whole year and what she got out of it. Most average readers are not the target audience. If you prefer happy endings, or filtered positivity, this is not your book. If you read the summary and then feel shocked that you are reading darkness… I’m not sure what to tell you. The narrator is also clearly OLDER RETELLING THE PAST: indicates she was (x) amount of years old during that year of her project. She was young and not where society expects emotional maturity or closure. She’s counting to her mistakes and behavior in ways that are messy or socially unacceptable. That’s real life. Things happen & it changes people. This novel simply shows what usually happens behind closed doors and within the mind. ALL IN ALL: I loved this book. I understand the main character. The juxtaposition and character foils work well. It’s straightforward with predictable outcomes—but that’s exactly what the summary sets up, so I don’t understand why some reviewers are confused. Sometimes it takes a jarring, painful awakening to make you feel differently about living. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ What did I just read? *by O***Y on May 10, 2019* One star for the beginning of the book, one star for the middle, no star for the end, one star for the beautiful prose, and one for keeping me engaged in a book that was about a woman in the throes of depression, bent on self-destruction, and the lengths she will go to to sleep her life away. I can honestly say that I have never read anything like this. The main character is a self-absorbed sadomasochist, but I felt sorry for her anyway. I hated the way she treated her friend, Reva, but I came to understand why she did it; I hated the way she allowed her - boyfriend? Hook-up? Abuser? - Trevor, to mistreat her, but I came to understand why she did that, too. The beginning and middle of the story hummed along but then the third act felt rushed and out of sync. Perhaps the author painted her characters into a corner and could see no way out other than the ending, but I felt cheated. Glad I read it, however, and I will definitely consider other books by Ms Moshfegh. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Book physical quality fine — the story just didn’t grab me. *by J***J on December 12, 2024* Moshfegh’s prose is brilliant contemporary, an easy to follow “stream of consciousness” dialogue from a dissociative and unreliable narrator. I related with her at parts, loathed her at others, and at times found myself so utterly baffled by her choices yet, somehow, they made sense for her. A story about upper class white woman addiction, drug use, abandonment, and abuse, and the never-ending cycle which brings her back to face it over and over. Trevor was completely unsympathetic, and I cared so little for his scenes. Seeing his name made me go red. — SPOILERS BELOW — Wish that mf died instead of Reva. I liked Ping Xi more than that old man freak. Also, alas, in the contemporary world, 9/11 is seen as more of a punchline than a culmination of a series of horrendous events, overcoming said events, only for your one solace to be stripped without warning. 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