Everything you need to understand or teach Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh .
A hard-hitting, revisionist view of medieval folklore, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona takes aim at such issues as wealth, privilege, gender, and faith through the story of Marek, a humble lamb herder’s son who finds himself adopted by the lord of a small, parochial village. Moshfegh uses a flexible third-person point of view to interrogate the psychologies of various characters in the novel’s bleak, hardscrabble world, including Marek’s haughty father Jude, the enigmatic village healer Ina, the petulant lord Villiam, and the corrupt priest Father Barnabas. Though couched in familiar medieval scenery, Marek’s story serves as a parable on the fraught questions of our contemporary world and carefully scrutinizes how our circumstances change our relationships with ourselves, the world, and God, exploring themes of wealth, faith, performance, memory, and nature.
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