Under the Falls
I have read all 10 of Richard Russo’s novels and all four of his short story collections. I would recommend them to any reader, any time. So, please believe me when I say that I was befuddled when reading Russo’s new novel, Under the Falls, and experienced a creeping sense of disconnection and dissatisfaction ... This other book simply did not work for me. It jettisoned everything I thought was coming for something else. Even as I adjusted to what the book was attempting, it all felt at odds with Russo’s amazing gift for character interiority grounded in place.
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At its best when he leans into the complexity of the homecoming theme ... A thriller, but at its best it’s concerned about that matter of haunting — about whether the child can ever be reconciled with the adult, and who gets hurt along the way.
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Russo’s dark and brooding novel is cinematically lush and emotionally potent, a shrewd treatise on the perils of reunion, remorse, and the quest for redemption.
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