A review by dalhausen
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

3.0

I was surprised by the comic elements of this story (in a good way), fascinated by the fantastical threads that run through it, and impressed as always by anyone's ability to name more than 5 types of birds or herbs in a single sentence. That kind of knowledge seems to be employed often in poetry, and just as then, it dazzles me to imagine that kind of versedness with nature. Moshfegh's richness of voice grows and grows.

Overall undecided on how I feel about it, but as always, she's pushed me as a reader to wonder why so few authors press up against the disturbing as a fact of life and a source of wonder.