My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 'sad-girl' fetishism or 'cuttingly funny' feminist satire?
- Written by Charlotte Chalken, Course Coordinator, Media Law and Ethics, University of South Australia
In a new series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones.
I took a shower once a week at most. I stopped tweezing, stopped waxing, stopped brushing my hair. No moisturising or exfoliating. No shaving. I left the apartment infrequently. I had all my bills on automatic payment plans. I’d already paid a year of property taxes on my apartment and on my dead parents’ old house upstate.