Lorrie Moore

Unha viaxe de dous ex amantes, ela xa morta, como despedida nun coche que conserva todo o traxecto un caixón de area para gatos. Polo medio un conto gótico sobre unha historia ocorrida no século XIX, no que unha muller escribe cartas á súa irmán tamén morta. A primeira morta quere cambiar de cemiterio e as cenizas da segunda serven para que uns clientes non resbalen na escaleira dunha posada. Unha historia sobre como sobrevivir á morte dos que nos rodean, e á metafórica falta de fogar cando xa non estamos a gusto aquí.… (meer)

[a:Lorrie Moore|11746|Lorrie Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1224046427p2/11746.jpg] new novel, [b:I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home|61605476|I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home|Lorrie Moore|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670195659l/61605476._SY75_.jpg|97163559], was a wistful tale of two brothers, one in hospice, and one brother's peculiar road trip with the ghost of a lover interspersed with epistemological entries from a nineteenth century murderess. The writing is excellent and witty. The pacing is fine. But what did it all mean and why the letters? If that sort of structural ambiguity troubles you, I can't recommend this book. I read mainly for good writing yet I was confused. Check out Ron Charles: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/13/lorrie-moore-i-am-homeless-if-th...… (meer)

I read this around the time it came out, I was in my 20's and I liked it quite a bit. I realize now that I was not at a point in my life where I was really ready for this. I hadn't seen the end of enough things to be ready for this book, which is very much a book about endings (or at least monumental transitions.) I am not a fan of the self-help genre, so I love what Moore does here in approaching many of the types of relationships and skills/abilities gaps covered in those books and showing us that things can't be fixed, that the very idea of a one-size-fits-all solution requires that we strip away everything but the problem, ignore everything the people have the problem cam in with and ignore all the non-problematic elements at play. In self-help there are no intersectional issues or psychological comorbidities, just people those books tell you should behave in a certain way and then you will get the desired result. But in life everyone comes in with a pile of preexisting experiences that make it implausible to expect they will act in one specific way to a situation. Self-help guides work if everyone involved is a replicant. These stories are so rich and complicated and heartbreaking and funny and very very human. They are so good!

I started reading this a few months back at the urging of my wise and well-read GR friend Robin. I was reading a story here and there, but after the book came up in conversation a few days ago I read the last three stories in rapid succession, and that totally worked for me. Just this past Saturday I told a friend of mine that I generally had no interest in reading about characters' whining about their relationships with their mothers, and I stand by that, but the issue is the whining, not the relationships with mothers angle. Moore gets this right all the way through. This was a necessary and treasured reread for me.… (meer)