A review by jeremiah
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore

I liked the first half of the novel, that is, the initial variations, or "anagrams," but the final part of the book, "The Nun of That" wasn't all that great to me. Moore spends too much time being silly; for example, "The ants are my friends / they're blowing in the wind" refrain. However, based on interviews, I think she's aware of how that tendency was out of balance in previous works. There was some great jokes in this one, though, and the first sentence is hilarious. My favorite part was when Benna whacks her now ex-friend over the head with a ketchup bottle and suffers zero consequences.