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A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
I love Lorrie Moore. She is the master of character development and story and all elements of both. I would love to write like her! I recently read this and was drawn back into her style, from what I have found to be realistic and generally sad. In this book, a college woman becomes a baby sitter for a wealthier white couple who adopt an African American child. She goes through the process with the 'mother' and depicts some of the potentially seedier sides of adoption processes. She also shows us how we wear our choices, how sometimes a child is a hope for a new life or a shield for the existing one perhaps. For me, her main character is always sympathetic and struggling to get by like any other ordinary American young woman, she is real.