'' My Year of Rest and Relaxation '' is Ottessa Moshfegh 's second novel , following '' Eileen '' ( 2015 , shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize ) , as well as a novella ( '' McGlue '' , 2014 ) and a short story collection ( '' Homesick for Another World '' , 2017 ) . Moshfegh initially planned '' My Year of Rest and Relaxation '' to be focused primarily on the terror attacks of September 11 , 2001 , even reaching out to terrorism expert Paul Bremer , though she called off the interview and the project took a different tack
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