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Book cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and RelaxationOttessa Moshfegh

Characters in My Year of Rest and Relaxation

4 characters, main characters first.

Supporting characters

  • Reva

    The narrator's needy, image-obsessed best friend, unraveling from bulimia and her mother's illness.

  • Dr. Tuttle

    The narrator's eccentric, wildly unqualified, pill-dispensing psychiatrist.

  • Trevor

    The narrator's emotionally distant on-again ex-boyfriend, a Wall Street trader.

  • Ping Xi

    A conceptual artist who becomes fascinated with turning the narrator's hibernation into art.