my year of rest and relaxation - ottessa moshfegh

i'm surprising myself with this book as an answer to your question - tonally it's very different from the virgin suicides in many ways: it's funny; it's decidedly written by a woman, from a woman's perspective; and it's a satire. still, i think there's a shared interest in exploring the plane of female sadness and a certain kind of resignation that both books have toward their ill-fated protagonists. both books describe their central women as both doomed and aesthetically aspirational, and in both books, the women/girls are always kept at some distance to us