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Week of January 23, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of January 23rd include EVERYBODY'S FOOL, which picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984 in Richard Russo's 1993 novel, NOBODY'S FOOL; MIDNIGHT SUN by Jo Nesbø, the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane; and Patricia Bell-Scott's THE FIREBRAND AND THE FIRST LADY, the riveting history of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist and the first lady of the United States forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.

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Richard Russo, author of Everybody's Fool

In this long-awaited follow-up to 1993’s NOBODY’S FOOL, the irresistible Sully is staring down a cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left. It’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years; the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends; and Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one).

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