My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

To bring such a troubled, layered and original character to life that we feel audiences haven’t explored before is incredibly exciting.

Said Robbie and her Luck圜hap cohorts: “We are thrilled to be adapting Ottessa’s incredibly rich and exhilarating novel as we continue to tell unique stories with women at the heart of them.

After being lucky enough to work with Margot on Suicide Squad and witness her acting talents first hand, I have also been impressed by the gifted producers she, Tom and Josey have shown themselves to be this project creates the perfect opportunity to collaborate in that capacity.” Luck圜hap Roven called the book “a brilliantly humorous, dark and poignant novel, which we are excited to develop into a screenplay. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.Pic will be produced by Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, Madison Weireter and Stephanie Haymes-Roven, and Luck圜hap’s Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong?My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question.

But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribesOur narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh