bbNamed a Best Book of the Year by iThe Washington Post, Time, /iNPR, Amazoni,Vice, Bustle/i, iThe New York Times/i, iThe Guardian/i, iKirkus Reviews/i,i Entertainment Weekly/i, The AV Club, & Audible/bbrbrA iNew York Times Bestseller/ibrbr 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.  iEntertainment Weekly/i brbr Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.  b iVogue/i/bbrbr/bFrom 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.brbrOur 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?brbriMy Year of Rest and Relaxation/i 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.