My Year of Rest and Relaxation Free Audiobook Download by Ottessa Moshfegh

This is a very quick, short and disturbing read about the protagonist who takes a year off to recover from some sort of trauma. By spending this long time in bed, she eventually finds out things about herself and her family that are not all that pleasant.

Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel chronicled a year in the life of a twenty-something woman who had almost everything she wanted, but was still dissatisfied. She threw herself into a self-destructive spiral of prescription drugs and alcohol, which left her bedridden for six months before she felt ready to get back on her feet - until she found out that her father had died unexpectedly. That's when the protagonist decided to try an extreme program: she would take one day off each week, without the internet or TV or even the phone.

The audiobook My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh tells the story of a 26-year-old woman who spends a year doing nothing. She doesn't work, she doesn't exercise, she spends all her time finding meaning in television and masturbating. She's doing pretty well until a chance encounter with another wannabe-recluse leads to an extreme case of Stockholm syndrome.

Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel tells the story of PFC Ron Kovic, an American soldier serving in Vietnam during the war. The novel opens with a voiceover citing a study that found that veterans who suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder were at the highest risk of developing heart disease--of which they had a 90% chance of dying from--compared to any other deployment. The protagonist is suicidal, detached and depressed when he returns home, having just been diagnosed with PTSD himself. He falls into substance abuse and begins to take refuge in sex work as a way to numb his pain.

Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, is a refreshingly unique book. Published in September of 2017, it follows the story of a woman who has just shelved her Ph.D in English Literature and quit her job as an English teacher at a New York City high school after a decade-long stint teaching there. The protagonist, who is unnamed for the first three hundred pages, spends the time leading up to this moment by engaging in various activities that provide us with glimpses into her personality: binge drinking at work parties with colleagues, smoking cigarettes on a rooftop terrace overlooking Central Park, going straight from teaching to a bartending shift where she will sleep on the bar top rather than go home

Ottessa Moshfegh's story of a woman who goes on vacation this summer, but finds that she is unable to escape the thoughts of her past peeling back one layer at a time.