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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Literature · 2018
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Literature 2018

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

pharmacological hibernationUpper East Side numbnessMoshfegh detachment
Author
Ottessa Moshfegh
Year
2018
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It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend...

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pharmacological hibernation pharmacological hibernationUpper East Side numbness
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Ottessa Moshfegh, 2018 — My Year of Rest and Relaxation

It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend...

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Lets the memory thread settle into a deeper literature form.
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It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend...
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