Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo

An affectionate, bittersweet portrait of life in a small upstate New York town, centered on a stubborn, wisecracking everyman and the colorful, flawed people who orbit him; as aging, lost opportunities, buried secrets, and the slow decay of the community converge, old loyalties are tested and surprising acts of kindness and forgiveness emerge. The novel balances comic misadventures with poignant observations about family, mortality, and the messy ways people try to do right by one another.

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