Lapvona refers to the name of the village where the novel is set. We’re not in contemporary America any more but in somewhere like medieval Europe, and the characters aren’t “prettier than Sharon Stone” but proper old-school uggos, all tooth and gangle and belly. There’s more plot in Moshfegh’s latest novel Lapvona. Not that there was much plot: the novel follows a beautiful young woman marooned in her New York apartment, where she mainly watches TV and pops pills like they’re Pringles. The book was a hit when it came out in 2018 and had a second wind during the pandemic, when readers found themselves “resonating” with its cabin-fever plot. Has there been a better novel this century than Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation? There might not have been.
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