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A review by katdid
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
4.0
Yesterday afternoon, on the two-hour train ride back from my parents' house, I was reading the final story in this collection.
YES. THIS. YES.
I thought YES. THIS. YES. several times while reading these stories. I also laughed out loud like a psycho. And mostly I envied how effortless Moore makes this writing caper look; how her stories are absurdist but the characters still relatable and known. It's kind of a neat trick, the way she can take (say) a story about a baby with a tumour and make it both harrowing and farcical.
She would hug her parents goodbye, the gentle emptied sacks of them, and think Where did you go?
YES. THIS. YES.
I thought YES. THIS. YES. several times while reading these stories. I also laughed out loud like a psycho. And mostly I envied how effortless Moore makes this writing caper look; how her stories are absurdist but the characters still relatable and known. It's kind of a neat trick, the way she can take (say) a story about a baby with a tumour and make it both harrowing and farcical.