NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North
Bath in upstate New York and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of
millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool. Sumptuous
spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a working-class community...” —The New York
Times • Another instant classic filled with Russo's witty dialogue and warm understanding of
human foibles. —People Magazine Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald Sully”
Sullivan the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its
much wealthier neighbor Schuyler Springs. Peter Sully’s son is still grappling with his
father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son Thomas wondering if he
has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile the towns’ newly
consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond after the resignation of
Doug Raymer the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover. When a decomposing body
turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns Charice and Raymer are drawn
together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town
Ruth Sully’s married ex-lover and her daughter Janey struggle to understand Janey’s daughter
Tina and her growing obsession with Peter’s other son Will. Amidst the turmoil the town’s
residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body and wonder who among their number
could have disappeared unnoticed. Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that
Russo is known for Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master.
