At the concert, resentment simmers just beneath the surface, and Tyler is confronted with faces new and old: his childhood best friend, now chief of police, and his star officer, an out-of-towner who may have bitten off more than she can chew. And then there's Freddi, a woman whose questionable dealings and fraught history with Tyler will become the catalyst for a tragedy that will upend each of their lives and threaten to validate Tyler's worst fear: that 'Stone Mountain is the kind of place you might escape from once, if you're lucky, but not twice...'
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; and the memoir Elsewhere. 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. He lives in Portland, Maine.