Ottessa Moshfegh

My guest this week is Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Set in New York City in the year 2000, it tells the story of a wealthy young woman who decides to go into hibernation with a cocktail of sedatives. Recently released in paperback, it’s darkly funny and wonderfully, unashamedly strange. Ottessa is undoubtedly one of the most original voices in fiction today, whose stories share an intriguing sense of the grotesque - and I found our conversation, which took in everything from being an outsider to why she doesn’t drink alcohol, utterly fascinating. Buy My Year of Rest and Relaxation here https://tinyurl.com/y3v45ka8 Twitter: @aliceazania Instagram: @aliceazania Edited by Chelsey Moore