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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

This is not the type of book that I would usually read (dream sequences, drug haze), but it fit so perfectly into my insomnia-fueled fugue that I finished it in less than 24 hours. I liked how apathetic the MC was, and I liked indulging in her narcissistic cruelty.

The book came out in 2018, but I think it hits different after so many of us were/are locked in our apartments for days on end during the pandemic. Even today as I am working from home and rarely have an incentive to go outside during the daylight hours, a dreamy half-awake bubble of unconcern with the greater world takes over my days.