Understanding Lorrie Moore by Alison Kelly (review)

Kelly's treatments of the recurring elements of Moore's fiction, whether thematic, such as female embodiment, journeys and dislocation, and feelings of marginalization and estrangement, or aesthetic and formal, such as her use of simile, metafictional constructions, and free indirect narration, are consistently compelling, and will remind readers what they love about Moore while showing them what they might have missed.