A review by chloekg
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

1.0

In this New York Times bestseller with unnecessary post-9/11 ghosts, the book's quirky-yet-featureless protagonist bumbles through a series of uncomfortable and unsuccessful relationships that could have interesting social commentary except for each of them ending with incoherent and abrupt tragedy. Everything turns out poorly, and the only lesson of it is a bleakly unrealistic, "that's just how it is sometimes."