# Event Details - **Event Name**: Richard Russo in Person - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us on Wednesday August 19 at 7 PM as Richard Russo talks about his new novel, Under the Falls, in conversation with Martha Ackmann.About this EventThis event will take place at the First Congregational Church at 1 Church Street in South Hadley.About the BookThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns with his first stand-alone novel since Chances Are . . . —a spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends.When Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen, he had no plans of returning. With only a duffel bag full of clothes, a few bucks stolen from his father’s dresser, and a guitar, his most prized possession, Tyler disappeared without so much as a goodbye. Eighteen years later, Tyler, now the frontman of a famous band aptly named Stone Mountain, finds himself returning to his hometown for a one-night-only benefit concert to support his old friend, Doc, who lost feeling in his legs following a childhood accident. As Tyler ascends the mountain, memories of his childhood come rushing back—memories of his abusive father and despondent mother, of the friends he left behind—and he quickly learns that, for many people on Stone Mountain, the past does not feel like so long ago, and not everyone has been eagerly awaiting Tyler’s return.At the concert, resentment simmers just beneath the surface, and Tyler finds himself confronted with faces new and old: there’s Curt, Tyler’s childhood best friend, now Stone Mountain’s chief of police, and his star officer, Deb, an out-of-towner who may have bitten off more than she can chew by accepting a job in Stone Mountain. And then there’s Freddi, Curt’s wife and Tyler’s former lover, a woman whose questionable dealings and fraught history with Tyler will become the catalyst for a tragedy that will upend each of their lives and threaten to validate Tyler’s worst fear: that “Stone Mountain is the kind of place you might escape from once, if you’re lucky, but not twice.”Under the Falls is at once a propulsive thriller, a gut-wrenching portrait of a tight-knit rural community undone by the sins of its past, and an unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become. This is a stunning, deeply empathetic novel, one that takes Russo’s penchant for character-driven drama to thrilling new heights.About Richard RussoRICHARD RUSSO is the author of ten novels, most recently Somebody's Fool, Chances Are . . . , Everybody’s Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; the memoir Elsewhere; and the essay collection Life and Art. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, ME.About Martha AckmannMartha Ackmann is a journalist and author who writes about women who’ve changed America. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the Paris Review, and New York Times. A Guggenheim Fellow and Scholar in Non-Fiction at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, Ackmann has appeared on the BBC, CNN, and most recently on Australian and New Zealand television, discussing her latest biography, Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/south-hadley/richard-russo-in-person/100001987708310063 - **Event Categories**: music, art, entertainment, literary-art, concerts, performances, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-08-19T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: First Congregational Church - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: South Hadley - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: First Congregational Church - **lat**: 42.2585572 - **long**: -72.5748638 - **full address**: First Congregational Church, 1 Church Street, South Hadley, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Richard Russo in Person - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/b220cfb3ec3f7e6ccb04732226cec6df25ab40bfa7ab5252528d277dfc8a1538-rimg-w1200-h863-dc33442a-gmir.jpg?v=1776654412 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Richard Russo in Person being held? - **A:** Richard Russo in Person takes place on Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm at First Congregational Church, 1 Church Street, South Hadley, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Richard Russo in Person? - **A:** Richard Russo in Person is organized by Odyssey Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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