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A review by erklel
Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin
3.0
These short stories closely examine the interiority of upper/middle-class white girls and women, which I imagine might feel radical if you’ve mostly been reading Franzen and Roth or something. I just felt a disconnect though, I just didn’t care much about what was happening.
It is so much about the interior, there’s barely any plot - which wasn’t the problem for me, I don’t think. She had a few incisive, observant details on shifting friendship dynamics, strained and complicated familial relationships, which resonated but nothing monumental.
My favorite of the bunch was “Looking for a Thief,” about a mother contemplating the path her life had taken.
It is so much about the interior, there’s barely any plot - which wasn’t the problem for me, I don’t think. She had a few incisive, observant details on shifting friendship dynamics, strained and complicated familial relationships, which resonated but nothing monumental.
My favorite of the bunch was “Looking for a Thief,” about a mother contemplating the path her life had taken.