Northshire Bookstore Presents Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo

Northshire Bookstore and Universal Preservation Hall are proud to present an afternoon with Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo in conversation with Joe Donahue of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. Russo will discuss his new novel "Under the Falls," a spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends.

"A local boy made good returns years later to his impoverished, drug-and-crime ridden Adirondack town, where the warm welcome he desires is upended by those with long memories. Russo's agile storytelling shows how difficult it is to outrun your past." — Northshire Bookseller Mike Hare

"Under the Falls" is at once a propulsive thriller, a gut-wrenching portrait of a tight-knit rural community undone by the sins of its past, and an unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become. This is a stunning, deeply empathetic novel, one that takes Russo’s penchant for character-driven drama to thrilling new heights.

Tickets for this event include an autographed hardcover copy of "Under the Falls." You will receive your book upon arrival at the event on August 16.

RICHARD RUSSO is the author of ten novels, most recently "Somebody's Fool," "Chances Are . . . ," "Everybody’s Fool," and "That Old Cape Magic;" two collections of stories; the memoir "Elsewhere;" and the essay collection "Life and Art." In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for "Empire Falls," which, like "Nobody’s Fool," won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine.