Okay, so...I finished Empire Falls. Loved it! What a good storyteller Richard Russo is. The characters were so full of life and the main character was so real and I felt such...sympathy and, yet I don't know...the author just instilled in the reader such a sense of anger FOR Miles (the main character). I wanted to jump into the novel and kick all the asses of all the people that were doing him wrong and making such a fine man question his own goodness! A writer can't do wrong when his words make you want to move to Maine and find a greasy diner to waitress in, hoping that the short order cook just happens to be a man named Miles Roby. Read it...I think you'll understand.
I am now on to a novel that, interestingly has this on the cover: "Effortlessly haunting...like Richard Russo's Empire Falls...utterly, entrancingly alive on the page" (from the NY Times). I guess if I liked my last novel, I better like this one. It takes place in the 1940s in a Pennsylvania mining town and features the Novak family. Specifically, Italian Rose Novak who broke with tradition by marrying a Polish man, who happens to die in the book's first chapter. Following that, the story is about Rose and her five children as they struggle through the years that follow. I look forward to this one as the author has consistently written acclaimed novels. Her first - Mrs. Kimble - won the PEN/Hemingway Award. I'll let you know.
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