A review by crazy_mr_earl
Elsewhere by Richard Russo

2.0

What do I think? Well, I think that those who write book blurbs need to rein in their hyperboles...one said it was darkly funny. Maybe. Another said it was hilarious. Definitely not. It is a somewhat intriguing memoir, if only because it is so average. Everyone comes from somewhere, and this is where Russo comes from. I think he is a brilliant novelist. The take away from the memoir is that a novelist can come from anywhere...and that the somewhere the author comes from often informs their writing. Other than that, I felt like this was intensely personal introspection about the relationship...something best suited for his diary and not for public consumption. I love him even more that I know some of this stuff, but I did not love the book.