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Empire Falls by Richard Russo is a novel that is not terribly long and I checked it out on my kindle app from the library. The fact that I had to renew it says a lot for how much I felt lukewarm about it while reading it. I will say it got better at the end. The chapters that lead up to the school shooting and the chapter where the shooting occurred did hold my interest. In fact the second half of the book was good. I understand the first half of the book was spent developing characters. But somehow it just came off gossipy to me. I am glad I hung in there though because over all it is a good book. It is the story of several individuals that live in a small town in Maine where industry has left and very little is left as far as opportunities for those that remain. There are people who lie, people who have affairs, and people who are just discouraged. The people in the town are trapped in their lives and they all want things to somehow change for them. It isn't really my genre. But over all it is a good book. It was a best seller and they made a movie out of it. Please click on the author's name and book title above to follow the link to more information and enjoy the video that follows.
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