"Moving dramatizes an older, innocent way of life ... brisk, colorful, and often witty." –
The New York Times Book Review "Immensely readable and sympathetic.... Mr. Russo has an instinctive gift for capturing the rhythms of small-town life." –
The New York Times "Richard Russo [is] a masterful storyteller with a mission: to chronicle with insight and compassion the day-to-day life of small-town America ... alternating episodes of boisterous humor with moments of heart-wrenching pathos ... His characters are wholly sympathetic, but they are also human."
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Houston Chronicle "After the last sentence is read, the reader continues to see Russo's tender, messed-up people coming out of doorways, lurching through life. And keeps on seeing them because they are as real as we are."
–Annie Proulx
"Russo is a master craftsman ... The blue-collar heartache at the center of his fiction has the sheen of Dickens but the epic levity of John Irving."–
The Boston Globe