Webster's parents (now my inlaws!!) gave me this for Christmas last year and I just got around to it. After the baseball book I was feeling kind of uninspired about reading and thought this would get me back on track. Russo's Empire Falls had been one of my favorites. Unfortunately this book did not hold my attention quite as well. It was about a man looking back at his life, focusing on his childhood relationships with a best friend and a girlfriend. The girlfriend becomes his wife and the best friend becomes estranged from the couple, and the book switches between past and present to detail how this threesome ends up where they are. Several marriages were explored, and the action takes place both in the U.S. as well as Italy.
Russo's writing is consistent: deeply-developed characters and great descriptions of time and place. However, the book was not as well-formed as Russo's other books and I didn't like the characters enough. Overall, not a win for me.
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