A Gate At The Stairs - Lorrie Moore

A quietly devastating novel about good intentions and the fault lines that run beneath everyday life. Set in the aftermath of 9/11 this follows a young woman drawn into the complexities of adoption, care, and belonging. Lorrie Moore explores how personal choices collide with larger social and political realities. Lorrie Moore is so good at capturing the quiet absurdity of ordinary life...the humour, heartache and the emotional grey areas we might never have been able to recognise consciously before.

This is a book that reveals its weight slowly asks uncomfortable questions about responsibility, privilege, and what it really means to do the right thing.

Format: Large Paperback 
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Page count: 322
ISBN: 9780571249442
Origin: USA
Condition: VERY GOOD