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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha´s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn´t have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln´s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin´ age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disappearance of the woman each of them loved--Jacy Calloway. Now, more than forty years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo´s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader´s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship´s bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community.
For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are . . . is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable achievement.

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Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, most recently Everybody´s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody´s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries; in 2016 he was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Booksellers Association; and in 2017 he received France´s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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