Meg Vlaun

On "Lapvona" by Ottessa Moshfegh

2 August 2022 On Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh This book crossed my nose during the Creative Nonfiction unit of the Intro to Creative Writing Course I am currently attending virtually at Central New Mexico Community College. One of my fellow students, coincidentally also named Megan (she goes by Adair in our class to avoid confusion), wrote a literary criticism essay on Lapvona. Her description of the horrors located between this book’s front and back cover piqued my interest, but what really got me was the student’s reluctance to draw out any clear message. Her take was essentially “life is suffering” and “humanity is absurd chaos.” I didn’t buy it. I had to read it for myself.