Lara’s Reviews > My Year of Rest and Relaxation > Status Update

This novel is reminding me of “The Guest” by Emma Cline. Both narrators are conventionally beautiful women who use the societal bias for being tall, thin, and blonde to their advantage. Moshfegh is making some excellent cultural critique here. Why is our society so obsessed with a narrow definition of beauty? When the narrator is clearly so desperately miserable in spite of her physical looks.