A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of
Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set
in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to
grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can
properly be called adult.
His father, Sam, cultivates
bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of
his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly
going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either
to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to
these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us
a book that overflows with outsized characters and
outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at
once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
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