Lorrie Moore

We are delighted to welcome one of our favorite writers, Lorrie Moore, who will read and sign copies of A Gate at the Stairs, “one of the year’s best novels” (Kirkus Reviews). In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“stands by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.

Now, in her new novel—her first in more than a decade—Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. Publishers Weekly raves, “ Moore knits together the shadow of 9/11 and a young girl's bumpy coming-of-age in this luminous, heart-wrenchingly wry novel.”