foxmoon 's review for:

Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
3.0

I’m just obsessed with Tamara Shopsin’s writing style. It’s so refreshing—matter-of-fact and almost childlike while being filled with humor, insight, and empathy.

“Before Morton Street, Ilsa had lived in Ibiza. I don’t know what she did there. Likely worked as a laser-accurate typist. On Morton Street she lived next to the buddy building.

Her building had a problem with cockroaches.

It happens.”

There is not much of a story to this memoir, it’s a collection of brief and sometimes uninteresting memories but I'd still read anything she writes.