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Sarah was halfway in love with bobby marconi, the third main character, when all three were high school seniors in thomaston. Bridge of sighs is captivating for its loving attention to the town of thomaston and the particularities of its downtrodden residents, but even the most innocuous detail maps a world much larger than thomaston, a generous world that, by the end of the book, comes to seem so familiar, one is. The bridge of sighs is not, of course, near lake george. The events, so expertly chronicled by russo, cannot help but remind readers of similar experiences and travails in their own lives. Dexter county, maine, and specifically the town of empire falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession.
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