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Pursuing Bridge of Sighs—a nationwide best vendor hailed by The Boston Earth as “a fantastic achievements” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo offers us the story of a relationship, and of all other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the pledges of youngsters.
Griffin has been tooling around for almost a year along with his daddy’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much indeed alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does in order he drives right down to Cape Cod, where he and his partner, Joy, will rejoice the marriage of their princess Laura’s best ally. For Griffin this is comparable to driving in to the history, since he took his childhood summer season trips here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Happiness honeymooned, in the course of that they drafted the Great Truro Accord, an idea for their lives jointly that’s now thirty years old and has essentially become a reality. He’d kept screenwriting and LA behind for the sort of New Great britain college or university his snobby educational parents acquired always aspired to in vain; they’d migrated into an old house full of character; and they’d began a family group. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, particularly if you manage to achieve it. By the finish of this perfectly lovely weekend, days gone by has so carefully swamped today's that the future all of a sudden hangs in the balance. So when, a season later, a far more important wedding takes place, their precious Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once again with Happiness and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have helped bring schedules along. How in the world could this have occurred?
That Old Cape Magic is a book of profound introspection and every family sense imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed relationship, his own stressed one, his princess’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he needed and what in simple fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, occasions of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its own ending is at once amazing, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever before written.
From the Hardcover release.
