Lapvona 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. The Atlantic

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless sheph ...