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

2.0

The female hero character was a bit confusing. She is 20 years old, a clever pessimist with a wicked sense of humor. But it seems like each of the main characters is equally clever and has a similar humor… disorienting for a realistic setting. It may have worked in the third person, but written from the hero's perspective it was a bit odd. She never drank wine but conjured up "chablis" when describing a pale yellow, for example.
I couldn't shake the feeling that her character was like a "deep" Charlotte Simmons, or perhaps a Holden Caulfield wannabe.