jenna0010 's review for:

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
5.0

Gosh. This book. Lorrie Moore's prose is so elegant, this story so sorrowful yet somehow your heart is left full. Moore's writing turns the everyday into something so oddly honest, illuminating the dull, the boring, with new hope. Tassie is a narrator full of spunk, tolling through the relentless mundanity of life, reaching around, lanky limbed, for some sense of a self. Oh and Tassie's descriptions of food are everything to me. Gooooood stufffff.