A review by toryhallelujah
The Girl of the Lake: Stories by Bill Roorbach

5.0

This is the kind of writing that makes me happy to be alive: the kind that makes you feel grateful to get to experience it. I was nothing but beautiful, enchanted goosebumps all over at the ends of "Harbinger Hall," "Murder Cottage," and the title story, "The Girl of the Lake"; there is absolutely luminous prose in "Some Should." This is a book I feel richer for having read. I'd never heard of Bill Roorbach before now, but I will be seeking out everything else he has to offer. Bravo, times a million.


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Edit after reading it again 3 years later -- still quite good but I'd probably downgrade to 4 stars this read-around. It was truly a 5 star book on my first read though!