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Lapvona

Moshfegh Otessa

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot in a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet.

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was described as a captivating story of a village with intense and visceral descriptions, causing the listener to reread sentences due to the author's skill.

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So I just bought this and it's called Lapvona.

— Episode: 402 - Staunch Women

Episode: 402 - Staunch Women

It was described as a captivating story of a village with intense and visceral descriptions, causing the listener to reread sentences due to the author's skill.

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So I just bought this and it's called Lapvona.

And it is so good and so real.

I'm like, how did you do that? Like no. How did you just do that and put it on the page?

Episode: 402 - Staunch Women

Karen described the book as a story about a village and a king or prince, with graphic descriptions that caused her some discomfort due to their visceral nature.

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So I just got it because I was like, oh my God, she's such a great writer. So I just bought this and it's called Lapvona.

What looks to me like a dead lamb on the cover. It's really menacing.

And it is basically the story of a village. She never says what year it is and it's just everything that happens in this village and then in the king or prince who lives nearby.

The other reason it took me so long to read it is because it was just like, she would describe things and I would get a stomachache because it was like how gross this one thing was.

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