This novel is not for everyone. Anyone who has suffered depression, however, could likely relate to the melancholic, passive tone and lost days described by our narrator. Author Otessa Moshfegh gives us the bleakest answer to a mental health crisis, which somehow, I found comforting? In her self imposed isolation, this narrator draws some similarities with Nausea by Sarte, without 99% of the anxiety. In it's place, medication and apathy carve deep lines through the pages. It asks the question, what makes the living of this life any better than other lives one might choose? Dark, bleak, unique, and generally unsettling. I loved this book, I think of it often. I plan to read Lapvona soon.