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Key ideas from the book
- Griffin revisits the hopes he and Joy set for their life together nearly thirty years earlier.
- The novel considers how parents’ relationships can shape the lives of their children.
- Family ties include the complicated connections between spouses, parents, children, and in-laws.
- Griffin confronts the difference between what he thought he wanted and the life he has.
- Comic moments sit alongside sadness as the family’s past affects its present and future.
About That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Griffin carries his father’s ashes in his car as he drives to Cape Cod with his wife, Joy, for a wedding. The trip brings him back to the place where he spent childhood summers and where he and Joy, on their honeymoon, made a plan for the life they hoped to build. Now, nearly thirty years later, Griffin is reckoning with what became of that plan.
Richard Russo’s novel follows the ties between spouses, parents, children, and in-laws as Griffin faces his parents’ failed marriage, troubles in his own, and his daughter Laura’s new life. A later wedding on the coast of Maine brings family tensions and the past into focus again. Readers drawn to literary fiction about marriage, family relationships, memory, and the gap between expectation and reality may find this a thoughtful, often comic read.
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