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

3.0

This book was gifted with Lorrie's famous and lusted after ability to mold the English language into things we love but haven't yet seen before. I think if anyone else had written this book it would have been a complete disaster. I must admit I think she is better in short story format. The main character was robotic; letting life just happen to her and doing nothing to display any sort of true emotion or passion. I think a lot of Lorrie's characters are like this but it comes across a lot better in short story format where we only see them in passing moments. The End... What can be said about it? I feel as though I arrived Nowhere and it took over 300 pages to get there. The writing itself was enjoyable but the story was not.