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My Year of Rest and Relaxation book by Ottessa Moshfegh

Identitas Buku

Penulis: Ottessa Moshfegh

Penerbit: Pinguin

ISBN: 9780525522119

Jumlah halaman: 288

Fakta Menarik!

Ottessa Moshfegh merupakan penulis fiksi asal New England. Selain My Year of Rest and Relaxation, novel lain dari Ottessa seperti, Death in Her Hand, dan Lapvona merupakan novel-novel New York Times Bestseller.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation – menceritakan tentang the narrator memiliki misi untuk tidur selama setahun yang ia percaya dapat mengobati seluruh rasa trauma yang ia miliki. The narrator memiliki trauma dari apa yang ia alami sepanjang hidupnya mengenai keluarga, pasangan, teman, hingga rekan kerja. Ayahnya meninggal akibat kanker, Ibunya pun menyusul beberapa tahun kemudian. Setelah lulus dari Columbia University, ia bekerja pada bidang seni, meski tidak berlangsung lama hingga akhirnya di-PHK, dari titik tersebut the narrator memutuskan untuk melakukan hibernasi.

Sepanjang hibernasi, the narrator hanya tidur, menonton film, dan pergi ke psikiater. Jalan yang ditempuh olehnya untuk bisa tidur sepanjang tahun cukup ekstrim dengan banyak konsumsi obat-obatan dengan dosis tinggi yang memiliki efek samping cukup mengerikan.

Apa efek samping obat tidur tersebut? Bagaimana kondisi ia setelah melakukan hibernasi, apakah membaik?

Opiniku🙋🏻‍♀️

Cukup menarik buku ini, selain dari covernya juga premis ceritanya. Namun, buku ini juga aku katakan cukup ekstrim, karena apa yang dilakukan oleh the narrator gak bisa apple to apple untuk diterapkan di kehidupan kita. Mungkin, ya moral of the story-nya adalah, ketika kita depresi atau mungkin burnout, atau missal kita punya trauma yang berkepanjangan, kitab isa take a little break buat diri kita. Kasih diri kita libur dalam menghadapi semua aktivitas dan coba untuk mulai membenahi perasaan kita.

 

Selain itu, sisi menarik lainnya dari English literature adalah topik yang dibawa bisa banget ekstrim, seperti ini contohnya (agak) kecanduan obat tidur dengan dosis tinggi dan jumlah yang banyak. Yang mana, hal tersebut (mungkin) jarang sekali di-arise di novel novel Indonesia.

Rating Dariku

4/5⭐️

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Fun Fact!

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Besides My Year of Rest and Relaxation, some of her other novels like Death in Her Hands and Lapvona have also made it onto the New York Times Best Seller list.

Here Comes the Review!

My Year of Rest and Relaxation – the story begins with the narrator having this idea that sleeping for a whole year might help her heal from all the trauma she's been through. She's dealing with a lot—stuff with her family, relationships, friends, and work. Her dad died from cancer, and a few years later, her mom passed away too. After graduating from Columbia University, she got a job in the art world, but it didn’t last long—she eventually got fired. That’s when she decided to just check out from everything and go into a kind of hibernation.

During hibernation, the narrator basically just slept, watched movies, and saw a psychiatrist. The way she went about sleeping through the whole year was pretty extreme and she took a ton of high-dose meds with some seriously nasty side effects.

What are the side effects of the sleeping pills? Did she feel better after the hibernation?

Inside Nora’s Mind🙋🏻‍♀️

This book is pretty interesting, not just because of the cover, but also the story’s premise. However, I’d say it’s kind of extreme too, because what the narrator does isn’t really something we can apply directly to real life. Maybe the moral of the story is that when we’re feeling depressed, burned out, or dealing with long-term trauma, it’s okay to take a little break. Give ourselves some time off from everything and start working on healing emotionally.

Another interesting thing about English literature is that the topics can get pretty extreme, like this one, for example: being (kind of) addicted to high doses of sleeping pills. That’s the kind of stuff you rarely see brought up in Indonesian novels.

A Star From Nora!

4/5⭐️