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Listen to My Year of Rest and Relaxation

A short excerpt from My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, narrated by Willow. Try other narrators below, then bring your own DRM-free copy to hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Willow
Fast-talking young adult woman, with a questioning and curious tone
I can’t point to any one event that resulted in my decision to go into hibernation. Initially, I just wanted some downers to drown out my thoughts and judgments, since the constant barrage made it hard not to hate everyone and everything. I thought life would be more tolerable if my brain were slower to condemn the world around me.

About this sample

Moshfegh’s narrator is flat, funny and unbothered. Willow’s fast, curious delivery turns the plan to sleep for a year into something you nod along to.
The excerpt is the book’s opening passage, a few sentences long, generated with the same narration pipeline the app uses for whole books. Every narrator you can pick above is available for your own files, in this and 40+ other languages.

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