Snoozing through the tears

My Year of Rest and RelaxationBy Ottessa MoshfeghPenguin, 2018
The unnamed narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation might be the only person to consider Rip Van Winkle a role model, and interpret his story as a practical self-help plan for the depressed.
“Oh sleep. Nothing could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness,” she sighs, a recent college graduate