aea2142 's review for:

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

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Maybe part of the problem was that I was excited to read this for years. I loved one story, about the sex worker who agrees with her therapist that she's very normal. But the others were about unlikable people doing average things. I think some people like that because it feels true, but it doesn't to me. These stories named distasteful qualities and called that depth when really, that barely skims the surface of what it is to be a human being.