A review by rowancolleary
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

5.0

What a great collection of stories. I enjoyed them all, and really loved most of them. In an interview about Bojack, Raphael Bob-Waksberg talked about liking to experiment with different ways to tell stories, particularly through framing devices. There was a lot of that in this book. For instance, there was a story told about a relationship told through the eyes of one of the lovers’ dogs. Another story was told through a poem. Another was framed through a dinner party card game. Another through a “missed connection” draft. I think Raphael’s incredible use of these devices is one of the things that makes his storytelling unique. There was a lot of that Bojack absurdism and outrageousness in these stories too, but like Bojack, that didn’t stop the characters from feeling real and the stories from feeling grounded and emotionally charged. This is an amazing piece of work!