Bridge of Sighs: Richard Russo

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to marry Sarah, also an artist; to run a small empire of convenience stores; and to tell their story. He`s a good man, but Louis Charles Lynch, known as Lucy, isn`t always as reliable as he seems, and even he secretly longs for what he can`t have.

Now, at sixty years old, he and Sarah are about to travel to Venice, where Lucy`s oldest friend and rival has traded life and family for a life far removed from Thomaston. The truth about why he left, and aboutthe ties that bind these three friends, is complex, heartbreaking and utterly compelling.