Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, Npr, Amazon, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The Av Club, and Audible A New York Times Bestseller and One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years- a loopy, quietly furious pill head whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed butcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound. and Entertainment Weekly and Darkly hilarious . . . Moshfegh's the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood. and Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance.