Chances Are - Richard Russo

Chances Are - Richard Russo

Publication date: July 30, 2019

He and she read


Richard Russo is an author whose works I enjoy and Chances are did not disappoint.   In this novel, three sixty something men, friends from college, reunite on Martha’s Vineyard.  As for many males their age, a pivotal point in their college years and ensuing lives was that first Selective Service draft lottery drawing in 1969. Each one of them are also linked by their love of a woman, Jacy, a sorority sister in the house in which they all worked.  Jacy spent a Memorial Day weekend with them on Martha’s Vineyard right after graduation and disappeared at the end of that weekend.

Their past histories are revealed through flashbacks as they come to grips with their aging, how their lives have changed, and trying to ascertain what happened to Jacy those forty plus years ago.

As usual, Richard Russo’s narrative is strong on good writing and character development .  While this may not have been my most favorite book of his, it is well worth a read.

Incidentally, Russo is one of HIS favorite authors as well.......