Louis Charles Lynch also known as Lucy is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston New York his entire life He and Sarah his wife of forty years are about to embark on a vacation to Italy Lucys oldest friend once a rival for his wifes affection leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing the story of his town his family and his own life that makes up this rich and mesmerizing novel interspersed with that of the native son who left so long ago and has never looked backBridge of Sighs from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is a moving novel about small-town America that expands Russos widely heralded achievement in ways both familiar and astonishingFrom the Trade Paperback edition
