Ottessa Moshfegh's "Lapvona"
LA Review of Books
00:00
The Latent Political Viewpoint in La Pona
I felt like we had such an opportunity during the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement to really look at what we actually believe because we're still like the adults in our culture. It takes so much for a human being to unlearn shit. I was also afraid you know we don't want everything to fall apart we just want the bad things to fall apart. So looking at what looking at La Pona as this small world you know and how vulnerable were the people and also how cowardly they were. And when there's something that happens toward the end of the the section called winter where the whole community could have been changed if these two people told the truth and they chose not to because
Transcript
Play full episode
