That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every
family feeling
imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his
parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s
new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in
fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great
comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful
understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once
surprising, uplifting and unlike anything Richard Russo has ever written.
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