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| Three out of five possible bookmarks. |
2012
Elsewhere is a story about Richard Russo’s mother, who was a single parent to Richard. He grew up without a father around much but he had lots of cousins and maternal grandparents who were a part of everyday life. Richard’s mother is driven, stubborn and illogical as time went on, and he depicts her as afraid and vulnerable. It’s like Richard took copious notes in the kind of detail needed to successful tell this story.
Much later in life when his own daughter Kate is diagnosed
with OCD Richard more fully understands the unsettling events that his mother
experienced. With treatment Kate would be fine, but those treatments weren’t
known or available to his mother. People just thought she just asked irrational
and “crazy.”
I call Richard Russo the King of Patience. This memoir about
his relationship with his mother is delightful, well told and complete.
Richard Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls.
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