'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'

On the surface, our narrator has everything you could want in life. She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.

But there is a vacuum in her life, and she's got the perfect solution. She's going to take a year under sedation to relax and hide away from the world.

What could possibly go wrong?