Lorrie Moore writes literary fiction and short stories about relationships, illness, embarrassment and the comic uses people make of language when direct feeling is difficult. Birds of America collects stories about subjects including motherhood, dating, cancer and academic life, often allowing jokes and wordplay to coexist with grief or disappointment. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? looks back on a teenage friendship through an adult narrator, while A Gate at the Stairs follows a college student working as a babysitter for an adoptive family in the years after 9/11. Moore’s prose is witty, compressed and highly attentive to voice, with puns and sideways observations often carrying emotional information that characters do not state openly. Her books sit within American literary fiction, contemporary short stories and darkly comic relationship writing. Birds of America gives the clearest introduction to her short-fiction style. Read more Less
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