<b>My Year of Rest and Relaxation: by Ottessa Moshfegh | Conversation Starters</b><br /><br />She can well afford to rest the whole year surviving on the inheritance she gets from her dead parents, and she has unemployment benefits. Hoping to come out transformed into a better person, our unnamed protagonist intends to spend the whole year sleeping in her apartment as a form of the rest cure. She finds a psychiatrist on the yellow pages and gets a steady prescription of sleeping pills, psychotropic drugs, and anti-anxiety drugs. As she starts her year-long rest and relaxation, things happen. How can she find the healing and transformation she needs?<br /><br />My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a New York Times bestseller and the second novel of Otessa Moshfegh, one of the most admired new novelists today. Her debut novel, Eileen, is included in the 2016 Booker Prize&rsquo;s shortlist.<br /><br /><b>A Brief Look Inside:</b><br /><br />EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER<br />than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,<br />and the characters and its world still live on.<br />Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to<br />bring us beneath the surface of the page<br />and invite us into the world that lives on.<br />These questions can be used to..<br /><br /><b>Create Hours of Conversation:<br />&bull; Foster&nbsp;</b>a deeper understanding of the book<br /><b>&bull; Promote</b> an atmosphere of discussion for groups<br /><b>&bull; Assist </b>in the study of the book, either individually or corporately<br /><b>&bull; Explore</b> unseen realms of the book as never seen before<br />&nbsp;