Book description
Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their
hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in
Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's
driving round with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his
car, haunted by memories of bittersweet family holidays spent at the
Cape, while his acerbic mother is very much alive and always on his
mobile. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents,
but has he succeeded?
A year later, at a second wedding, Jack has a second urn in the car,
and his life is starting to unravel.
Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel,
Empire Falls
. He is also the author of
Mohawk
,
The Risk Pool
,
Nobody's Fool
,
Straight Man
and
Bridge of Sighs
, as well as a collection of stories,
The Whore's Child
and the memoir,
On Helwig Street
. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson's film
Keeping Mum
. He lives with his wife in Maine.
