For a novel about sleeping a year away, I couldn't put it down. Thoroughly bizarre, funny, sad, and certainly won't be liked by many - but I loved it.

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A superbly written dark and merciless tale about a woman who wants to sleep for an entire year, and attempts to do so by drugging herself. She is not likable, she has one friend, a shitbag ex-boyfriend, an obsession with Whoopi Goldberg, and an enabling psychiatrist who is hilarious and a borderline caricature. (I ♥️ u Dr. Tuttle)

Having read her debut novel EILEEN a couple of years ago, I knew the depths of Moshfegh's visceral descriptions and sneering characters. I was a little wary about diving back into another Moshfegh; she is able to cultivate a feeling of dread even years later. Her writing's hard to shake (not necessarily a bad thing). MY YEAR is different in a lot of ways, though, in better ways, and it's also so bitterly funny, I thoroughly enjoyed this. It's a very easy read that I could not put down. It's one of the best books I've read this year, and it has climbed into my all-time favorites list... can't shake it.

Though I was disgusted at times, cackled out loud at others...the last page, though, made me well up in emotion. I took a photo of it before I returned my copy to the library. It cements the feeling that I need to now own this book in print. Onto my wishlist it goes for my personal library.

Not everyone will like this novel, or any of Moshfegh's writing. I ran into a woman at a party last week who had never read Moshfegh's work but having read the recent New Yorker article about her has decided she'd rather not. I've yet to read the profile. Would recommend MY YEAR if you like the darkly maniacal writings of Bret Easton Ellis or Alissa Nutting, maybe even Chuck Palahniuk--however, Moshfegh's doing it better than all of them, in my opinion.