My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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📖 Book: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
📍 Location: Bookbar
🗓️ Date/Time: Tuesday, 9 July 2025 at 19:00

“My hibernation was self-preservational. I thought that it was going to save my life.”

For this month’s descent into beautifully detached sadness, we’re reading Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation — a novel about grief, privilege, and pharmaceutical numbness, narrated by a woman attempting to sleep through late-capitalist New York in the year 2000.

💬 Expect:
• Discussion on girlhood, grief, and generational exhaustion
• How to romanticize the void (ethically)
• Shared fantasies of disappearing without dying
• A safe space to ask: Would sleeping for a year actually fix me?

Come for the book, stay for the ambient existential crisis and espresso martinis.

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