![]() ![]() ![]() Part of what Russo came to grips with was his mother’s neuroses, which bedeviled her throughout her life. “When you don’t understand a parent’s life, in a way, you kind of don’t understand your own.” “I don’t write books in order to explain my experiences of life I write them to make things make sense, and there were large aspects of my mother’s life that I didn’t quite comprehend,” Russo said. As he told NPR in 2012, “ has a lot to do with this place that shared because she grew up there, too, in Gloversville, just as I did.” Jean, Russo’s Solo Mom, was a complex woman, and Elsewhere ended up being as much about Jean’s life as it was about his own. But in his 2012 memoir, Elsewhere, Russo called it by its true name. ![]() He called it Empire Falls in another novel of the same name. In his new book, Everybody’s Fool (Knopf, 2016), which picks up 10 years after his 1994 novel Nobody’s Fool left off, the town is called North Bath. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo has been writing about his hometown of Gloversville, New York, for much of his adult life. ![]()
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