Ottessa Moshfegh's Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman's
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In “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” Moshfegh turns her withering attention to the gleaming absurdities of pre-9/11 New York City, where everyone but the narrator seems beset with delusional optimism.
Jia Tolentino reviews “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” by Ottessa Moshfegh, and compares it to the novelist’s earlier work, including “Eileen” and “Homesick for Another World.”
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Ottessa Moshfegh's Cold, Lonely World - Electric Literature
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My “sad girl” fans concern me': Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, Books
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Ottessa Moshfegh Can You Feel That? The Territory Is Deepening
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh: 9780525522133
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A Year of Paperback Novels – Slick Magazine
Review: 'Eileen' is desolate, drab, brown and brilliantly artistic - Los Angeles Times
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Sad Girl BookTok Romanticizes Whiteness
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I've had enough of Sad Bad Girl novels and sensationalised trauma – but I'm hungry for complex stories about women
Movie Review: 'Eileen,' a wonderful novel about an 'invisible' young lady becomes an oddball film
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Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human - The New York Times
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Bettering Myself by Ottessa Moshfegh
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
I saw the movie adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's book Eileen and it ha
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Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel on Eileen, movies and their marriage: 'Are people titillated by unlikeable women?