The release date for the English version of 'Empire Falls' by
Richard Russo is Apr 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Russo, we are welcomed to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of shuttered mills where the people surround themselves with the solaces and rivalries offered by longstanding friends and neighbors and who find comedy and optimism in the most improbable places.
For twenty years, Miles Roby has been a burger flipper at Empire Grill. The work has cost him a lot of his dignity and his college degree. Why does he stay there? It may be his sensitive, intelligent daughter Tick, who needs all of his support to get through the neighborhood high school. Alternatively, it may be Janine, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Miles, who has made a match with a very conceited fitness club owner. Maybe it's Francine Whiting, the tyrannical owner of everything in the town, who appears to think that Miles is part of "everything." Richard Russo explores America's blue-collar heart in Empire Falls, a masterpiece brimming with humor, heartbreak, and grace.