by Lorrie Moore
For my full review, please visit Casual Debris.Moore's second novel, currently bookended by Anagrams and A Gate at the Stairs, is a short work that reads like a memoir, a narrator's personal guide through a specific time in her life. The narrator is on vacation in Paris in the midst of a seemingly f...
Beautifully written, reminiscent of She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. A good book that just wasn't for me.
I'm not sure I fully appreciated the power of the prose toward the end, but I think I'll read it again. Not as packed with witticisms as the other books I've read, but the power of the story is stronger.
A slim novel but one of the best. The slender ones usually are. Or at least more likely to be than the fat ones.A disillusioned woman, sort of stumbling through but forward in life, looks back on her coming of age and her relationship with her best friend. Captures the persona of a young teenager —f...
This is a lovely book, well worth reading.
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