Everybody's Fool: A Novel

"Pretty much all you need to know about this book is the story that inspired it: A small-town police officer discovers a garage door opener in his wife’s car. Convinced his wife is having an affair, he goes all over town aiming that door opener at different garages. Such is the jumping-off point for author Richard Russo’s return to North Bath, N.Y., a place he first wrote about over two decades ago in Nobody’s Fool. It’s the kind of place that would be easy to dismiss as a down-on-its-luck former factory town, so what a joy to have a novelist open up the humanity, wisdom and — of course — comedy to be found there."