Ottessa Moshfegh
American novelist whose My Year of Rest and Relaxation became a cultural phenomenon, its narcotized narrator resonating with a generation. Her fiction is deliberately abrasive and confrontational. She is one of the most discussed literary novelists of her generation.
Works
- EileenCaustic portrait of a secretary yearning for meaningful human connection
- My Year of Rest and RelaxationYoung woman sleeps for a year to escape the weight of existence
- Death in Her HandsWidow reading disturbing mystery novel finds it resembles her own life
- LapvonaMedieval woman sentenced to exile discovers unexpected freedom and transformation
- McGlueSailor's confessional about his troubled past and moral transgressions