The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool . Your fiction, like that of many Victorian writers, has a very definite sense of place.
Place is inseparable from character.
If I try to write books about people before I have a pretty good sense of the places, that' s an indication that I don't know the characters as well as I need to. And it's crucial to have a sense of place as process. Sully's string of misfortunes may also be due to bad luck or malign predestination. Sully's father brutalized him as a child. Sully deserted his son, Peter.