Ottessa Moshfegh, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"

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Ottessa Moshfegh reads and discusses her novel, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" at Politics and Prose on 7/25/18.
The unnamed narrator of Moshfegh’s compelling and unsettling novel is a woman who has everything: looks, a brand-new degree from Columbia, a job at an art gallery, an Upper East Side apartment, and a substantial inheritance. But her fairy-tale existence feels cursed. In 2000, she decides to escape her life by taking enough drugs to sleep through it all for a year. Aside from the psychiatrist who writes the prescriptions, she sees only a college friend and a boyfriend. Her plan works for a while, then a new drug, Infermiterol, causes strange and frightening blackouts and the narrator must face what it is she really needs. As she did in Eileen, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, Moshfegh writes with both humor and an unflinching attention to parts of life we’d rather not see, but can’t look away from.
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@joniheisenberg6691 5 жыл бұрын

Great book. Wonderful writer.

@worththewatch1517 6 жыл бұрын

Ottessa Moshfegh has an Romanian name while the surname is Iranian :)

@mirandac8712 5 жыл бұрын

I got tired of stuff like this in 1756.

@EricaNernie 6 жыл бұрын

I turned off when she said "I laid down"! She doesn't know her grammar, and nor, apparently does her editor. Hint: there's a difference between the verbs 'lie" and 'lay'.

@cw5854 6 жыл бұрын

lol

@cw5854 6 жыл бұрын

(for a more nuanced response than my prior "lol": No, Pam, she does not say "I laid down." I assume you're referring to the portion she read about napping, as that was at the beginning of the video, and that section of the book starts on page 39. If you turn to page 39 in the book, the text reads, "every time I LAY down in that supply closet." This is also what I hear Ms. Moshfegh say in the video. So you should be happy to know she might actually know her grammar. However, the idea that a book written in the first person needs to be grammatically correct is itself rather ridiculous. Would you so similarly turn off a video of Mark Twain reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of the grammatical errors throughout the book? I don't think you really care about the "mistake" you think you spotted, though (which is why I initially responded with just "lol"). You wanted an excuse to stop the video, and so you found one. )

@cw5854 6 жыл бұрын

ugh, one final response: in your comment, you say "She doesn't know her grammar, and nor, apparently does her editor." There are multiple grammar mistakes in this sentence. I don't think pointing out grammar mistakes does anything to bolster my own argument (not even when your comment is itself a complaint about grammar mistakes), but you seem like the type of person who likes things to be grammatically proper, and so I thought I'd point it out.

@annika5790 5 жыл бұрын

How you must miss out in life.

@Sam-rf8yh 5 жыл бұрын

We’re all waiting for your bestseller, Pam.