This felt like an arthouse film in book form. Haha. I came very close to DNFing but I’m glad I stuck with it. There’s a good chance that if I were in a different mood I would have hated this book. The ending saves it. As the book progresses, The many people of Lapvona we come to know develop ideas and theories that allow them cope with the many setbacks they face. Superstitions, mythologies. In the end, they question all of it, and find nothing to replace it with. It’s a poignant allegory for what it means to live in a society, even on the smallest of scales.