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A READING WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAPVONA AND MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION, MODERATED BY MAILE CHAPMAN
This is a book-with-ticket event. A ticket is required for entry, but includes a paperback copy of Lapvona. Additional copies of Moshfegh's books can be purchased below, or at the event—while supplies last.
In Lapvona, Little Marek is the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd who 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.
The 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.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, 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. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona, her next three novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue.
Maile Chapman is the author of the novel, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and a finalist for the PEN Center USA literary award in fiction. Her stories have appeared in A Public Space, Best American Fantasy Writing, Dublin Review, Boston Review, and GRANTA Online, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in fiction from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.