My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)

'A whip-smart dissection of American culture' - The Daily Telegraph

'The book that everybody's talking about... I read it and was entranced.' - The Times

'This is the first book I couldn't put down this year... Almost offensive with its close-to-the-bone truths, it's shockingly relatable. And legitimately laugh-out-loud funny. Ottessa Moshfegh is sharp, savage and hilarious.' - Isabel Dexter,  Elle

'The superabundantly talented...Moshfegh's sentences are piercing and vixenish... she is always a deep pleasure to read.' - The New York Times

'My Year of Rest and Relaxation is whip-smart, continuously compelling, and acerbic in all the right ways.' - The Daily Telegraph

'Electrifying... [Moshfegh] is adept at crafting compelling female characters who violate the rules of femininity... Moshfegh's protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary.' - Vanity Fair

'A relentlessly savage fable of privilege and pain... While we're laughing, we feel disgust. It's a combination that makes for diamond-hard entertainment.' -The Guardian

'Darkly hilarious... [Moshfegh's] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.' - Vogue

'[My Year of Rest and Relaxation is] a laugh-out-loud page-turner... it's also the best 9/11 novel I've read.' - Emily Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement

'Moshfegh's blackly funny new novel... [hits] multiple marks at once: as an art-school prank, a between-the-lines tale of displaced grief and a pitiless anatomy of gender injustice, it also offers... a dark state-of-America fable.' - Anthony Cummins, The Observer

'Ottessa Moshfegh's unnerving and compelling new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation... percussively hammered out in her flawless, rhythmic prose... concludes with a startlingly, unexpectedly beautiful passage... radical, urgent, and more painfully wise than perhaps we would like to admit.' - Sam Byers, The Times Literary Supplement