There are two weddings used as bookends with a year in the protagonist's life in between. Jack Griffin, after 34 years of marriage, is dealing with the question of who he wants to be when he grows up. His life has sort of snuck up on him and he's not sure if he's happy with where he ends up.We get t...
I know the reviews for this book weren't stellar, and there were moments when I thought the book was a hot mess, but mostly I enjoyed it. The best and most coherent part of the book was Griffan's relationship with his mother, I just wish he hadn't added a marriage breakup and a mid-life crisis to ...
Really enjoyed this one!!
I read this in an advance copy. It didn't grab me in the same way Empire Falls did and it is rather short so some of the characters were not thoroughly developed but Russo was able to capture the main esseence of their personalities so that you will see people you know in different aspects of each c...
Am a big Russo fan and enjoyed this shorter and lighter work.
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