A review by aethrawrites
Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund

dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Emotional and deep short stories wrapped in depressing dark humor ✨ I love short story collections, however they are always difficult to rate and I probably should've kept a record of individual ratings for each story — well, that's a reread pile problem. 

The Bus Driver, Clear as Cake and The Stalker are perhaps two of my favourites from this collection, and the former has such potential as a full fledged novel or movie adaptation 👀

The representation of queer struggles & feminism throughout these tales has been beautiful — in a tragic, unsettling, realistic way, in a way that doesn't feel like fiction. It's almost as if you're not reading but experiencing someone else's life.

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