A review by earlyandalone
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

3.0

I did not love this book. I did not like a single one of the characters...except maybe the baby girl. But I will say this--the ending was one of the most shattering and disturbing I've read in a while. I found myself running late to meet friends, sitting alone in my kitchen, restlessly turning pages, my dinner getting cold because I could not put the book down. It was a combination of wanting it to be over, and of needing to know how it all played out. Even though I wasn't fond of Tassie, the book's narrator, I did end up caring what happened to her, in the end. And that's saying something, right?