LWS October Book Club: 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Ottessa Moshfegh

Spooky season is upon us and since we always have seven nominations, this month's theme is THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.

The VOTES ARE IN and October's Book Club Selection is....

SIN - SLOTH
'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Ottessa Moshfegh

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,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

Book Summary
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? 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. Tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate. Amazon Link

Book Details
Page Count: 304
Publish Date: July 10, 2018
Audiobook: 7 hours, 14 minutes. Narrated by Julia Whelan

Optional Further Reading and Viewing
Watch: Interview with Author on Politics & Prose
Read: Q&A with the Author for Rumpus

Location - Wine Gallery
Weather permitting we will once again be at Wine Gallery Laguna Beach (sorry backup location fell through), however in November we will be back at Five Vines or if open Cowboy Nicks at Riverstreet)
Free Parking Underground off Pearl Street, steps directly to restaurant or metered street parking. This is outdoor seating so please dress accordingly.
Wines by the glass and full food menu - see MENU!