A review by kevin_shepherd
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

5.0

Lorrie Moore's prose is, at just the right moments, lofty and lyrical without ever being pretentious. Yes, it's a coming of age story about the awkwardness of transition, a storyline that's been done over and over and over again, yet never quite like this. Moore makes it seem effortless. She introduces us to Berie and Sils and their small bubble of a universe and 148 pages later we're nostalgic and reminiscent and more than a wee bit sad. I get that this isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea. I mean hey, not everyone likes or listens to Joni Mitchell, but that doesn't make her any less fantastic to those of us who do.