Why can't I wake up? I vow to cut down - but I love sleeping | Brigid Delaney

For us oversleepers, our battles to stay awake are ignored, or mocked. Sometimes we are threatened with violence

The sleeper (sorry) hit of the year, has to be Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

In it, the unnamed protagonist, in love with oblivion, aims to spend a year resting and resetting. She uses prescription drugs in order to sleep for days on end.

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