Our book for this week is “My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Croatian Mother and Iranian Father, Ottessa earned her BA in English from Barnard College and her MFA in Literary Arts in Brown.

Her writing style is characterized by her ability to portray lowlife characters taken with an innately pessimistic outlook on wider society, in the style of one of her influence’s, Charles Bukowski.