Richard Russo's most recent novel, Bridge of Sighs (2007) is marvelous. It's the first novel in a long, long time that I've finished and then immediately begun re-reading.

The book brings to mind the opening lines from T.S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton":

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.

Although, Russo's story gives the lie to Eliot's next line:

If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

To think that I found Bridge of Sighs at the Williamsburg Library's used book sale; that someone had valued it so little that s/he'd given it away!