Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona

Published July 26, 2022 at 3:00 PM EDT

Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel “Lapvona” brings us to a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters where a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test.

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