My Rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book surprised me. I began to read it and thought I knew where it was going. It got there, but certainly not in the way I was expecting it to. Its hard not to like Tassie, the narrator. Awkward, out of place, from
the midwest, she comes East to University, where she quickly and painfully grows up. There is an expected but twisted thread. There are babies, love, betrayal, bombs, food, racism and music.
But absolutely NO dissappointment.
"A Gate at the Stairs" was a finalist for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for
Fiction and for the Orange Prize.
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