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

4.0

My first Lorrie Moore book! and I really liked it. Thank you to the book I didn't like and didn't finish where one of the characters drags on Lorrie Moore, because I really liked this and I want to read another book by this author. This is set in rural America. The narrator is Tassie, who is twenty and at university in a liberal college town surrounded by farmland. She takes a job as a nanny for a family where the couple is fostering a baby leading up to adoption. The parents and Tassie are white and the little girl, Mary Emma, is biracial. The story is about family, Tassie's own and the family for whom she nannies. It's about how we bond and how we connect. I really loved this and can't wait to read another by this author.