![]() ![]() Favouring this more intense state, she comes up with a risky solution to end her blackout adventures.ĭespite trying to live a life of solitude, her friend Reva always finds a way to pop into her flat, ‘ I don’t know what it was about Reva. This was the dream.’ Infermiterol (also a made up drug ) is her strongest hitter it causes blackouts so she wakes up to Chinese food, new clothes and no memory of what she’s been doing. I was finally doing something that really mattered.’ I had a Google and some drugs she takes are real (Valium), some are invented (Maxiphenphen), her aim being: ‘If I keep going, I thought, I’d disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. ![]() In her quest to be asleep more than awake, our narrator takes an inexplicable amount of prescription drugs, ‘soon I was hitting the pills hard and sleeping all day and all night with two or three hour break in between. Tuttle, who is armed with a prescription pad she is willing to use frequently. (I can relate to this thought.) She finds herself a dodgy psychiatrist, Dr. She hates her job in an art gallery and finding herself generally dissatisfied with life, she decides that sleeping for a year would be a good way to re-charge her batteries and get a new outlook on life. She is also Whoopi Goldberg’s biggest fan. Our unnamed lead character can be described as: complex, educated (she went to Columbia University), living off her inheritance from her now deceased rich parents, in a damaging on/off relationship with Trevor, in her early 20s, blonde, possessing of beauty that she doesn’t particularly like (‘ Being pretty only kept me trapped in a world that valued looks above all else’), selfish and apathetic (I know, she sounds delightful.) And YET she has surprising spurts of compassion that make her interesting and compelling. Like your books deadpan, witty and satirical in tone? Then you’ll love My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Opening sentence: “ Whenever I woke up, night or day, I’d shuffle through the bright marble foyer of my building and go up the block and around the corner where there was a bodega that never closed.” ![]()
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