A review by bookishgoblin
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

1.0

This book was for my masters course and really I should have gotten more than half way through it but I just can't stomach any more. The writing is fine, but why chose to write this?! Every story is just people sipping alcohol musing about their affair and whether or not they should have taken that chance when they were young but didn't but oh look their wife's having an affair and the woman they're having an affair with is having an affair with someone else oh the nihilism of it all. I hate literary short story collections, especially ones with alcohol and freaking dinner parties, please make it end.