{"product_id":"lapvona-9780593300282","title":"Lapvona","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLapvona\u003c\/i\u003e flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don't want to live in, but from which you can't look away.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community's faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek's few consola­tions is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina's ability to receive trans­missions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina's home in the woods is a godless place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe people's desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by their depraved lord and governor, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord's family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By year's end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, and the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOttessa Moshfegh\u003c\/b\u003e is a fiction writer from New England. \u003ci\u003eEileen\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN\/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath in Her Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, her second and third novels, were \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eHomesick for Another World\u003c\/i\u003e and a novella, \u003ci\u003eMcGlue\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Southern California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575271133458,"sku":"9780593300282","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_56aac46c-aac2-455f-8ba5-48aa6b3eebc7.jpg?v=1744273772","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lapvona-9780593300282","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}