num_pages: 479
description: A wonderfully fun 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.
language: English
title: The Risk Pool
titlecomplete: The Risk Pool
characters: Ned Hall
genres: Fiction, Family, American, Coming Of Age, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Modern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7133
places: Upstate New York, Mohawk Valley, New York
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction
publisher: Vintage