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Ottessa Moshfegh: Lapvona (2022, Penguin Publishing Group) 4 stars

A fateful year in the life of a thirteen-year-old shepherd's son living in Lapvona, a …

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Moshfegh's books are page turners and funny, but they are also horrific and filled with dread. In a conversation with jilliansayre@bookwyrm.social, we were trying to figure out if you could say you "enjoyed" a novel by Moshfegh. It's a complicated question. This book is no different. You likely won't be able to put it down, but you might not be able to figure out why you keep turning pages (and you might ask yourself what that fact says about you).