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melissamaerz 's review for:
A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
This is the book that made me change my mind about Lorrie Moore. (Birds of America made me think she was hugely overrated.) A total page-turner with so many moments of beautiful writing and a final 1/3 that just ripped the heart right out of me so that I stayed up reading and crying until 3:00 am. Though I still wish she'd stop with the cutesy observations about language - I refuse to believe that characters in the midst of tragedy would stop to ponder terrible puns. ("You put the 'soul' in solider"? Groan...)