My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghA deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction), Ottessa Moshfegh Read THE razor sharp satire that everyone on TikTok is talking about On the surface, our narrator has everything you could want in life. She's young, beautiful, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her

but he will be hunted by man and horse alike

From roasts to rissoles

When secrets long thought buried at sea wash up on shore

god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans

what he was running from

hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat

and the concept of time

taking her place in the spotlight at last

her school and possibly her entire world

the sunsets

And how will she keep her pack safe from dangerous enemies

the sister lists for them the disastrous consequences that would follow: disease