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Under the Falls : A Novel.
Richard Russo returns with a new novel about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends. Book Club.
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- ISBN: 9780593805107
- Physical Description: 256 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Crime FICTION / Literary FICTION / Psychological FICTION / Small Town & Rural |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
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The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Empire Falls returns with his first stand-alone novel since Chances Are . . . âa spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends.
When Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen, he had no plans of returning. With only a duffel bag full of clothes, a few bucks stolen from his fatherâs dresser, and a guitar, his most prized possession, Tyler disappeared without so much as a goodbye. Eighteen years later, Tyler, now the frontman of a famous band aptly named Stone Mountain, finds himself returning to his hometown for a one-night-only benefit concert to support his old friend, Doc, who lost feeling in his legs following a childhood accident. As Tyler ascends the mountain, memories of his childhood come rushing backâmemories of his abusive father and despondent mother, of the friends he left behindâand he quickly learns that, for many people on Stone Mountain, the past does not feel like so long ago, and not everyone has been eagerly awaiting Tylerâs return.
At the concert, resentment simmers just beneath the surface, and Tyler finds himself confronted with faces new and old: thereâs Curt, Tylerâs childhood best friend, now Stone Mountainâs chief of police, and his star officer, Deb, an out-of-towner who may have bitten off more than she can chew by accepting a job in Stone Mountain. And then thereâs Freddi, Curtâs wife and Tylerâs former lover, 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 Tylerâs worst fear: that âStone Mountain is the kind of place you might escape from once, if youâre lucky, but not twice.â
Under the Falls is at once a propulsive thriller, a gut-wrenching portrait of a tight-knit rural community undone by the sins of its past, and an unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become. This is a stunning, deeply empathetic novel, one that takes Russoâs penchant for character-driven drama to thrilling new heights.
