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Empire Falls by Richard Russo

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Monday, September 11 through Friday, October 6, 2023. Read by Jim Fleming.

Small towns “force you to deal with your neighbour in a way people in cities and larger towns don’t have to” says Richard Russo. He demonstrates this in his epic new novel about a small town in Maine. Empire Falls has fallen on hard time, it’s main street so empty “you could strafe it with automatic weapons and not harm a soul.” But the people who surround Miles Roby at Francine’s Empire Grill make it all worthwhile.

(Knopf; ISBN-10: 0679432477)

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