My Year of Rest and Relaxation

A deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction)

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'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'

This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.

It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss

Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate — dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 — My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America's major young writers

'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy...' —Vogue

ISBN: 9781784877477 | Published: 18 January 2022 | Paperback | 304 pages