Bark: Stories

Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I am really being generous with the three stars, but it's not like I didn't like it. It's just that it has only been a couple of weeks, and I can't really remember it. These stories should have resonated with me...all of the protagonists are about my age going through things that people my age go through...like divorce, suburban malaise, what do you do when your first act is over?,etc. the writing is divine and the conversations witty and fun. But even when I finished, I thought, "what was the point?" Though I am sure she had one, and I just couldn't latch on. It's kind of a it's not you, it's me sort of thing. Moore likes to name her stories with double meanings like "Foes", but I am afraid this was all bark and no bite for me.


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"That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness."

"As each one lost its heat she could no longer feel it even there on her back, and then its removal was like a discovery that is had been there all along; how strange to forget and feel it only then, at the end;