Isabella Agostino

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  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) by Ottessa Moshfegh

    Reviewed by Isabella Agostino ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ I finished this manically, all in one evening. I appreciate how Moshfegh handles the sexually explicit content in this satirical novel. The descriptions of intimacy are sterile, devoid of sensuality, sometimes full of boredom, and at times, desperate. This seems to be the point—treating sex, both with others and yourself,…