This is a heavily character-driven book and with a huge cast of characters to drive it. He said this knowing full well she wouldn’t, for it was the particular curse of the Whiting men that their wives remained loyal to them out of spite. If she wanted to go back to Boston so damn bad, she should just do it. The lovely wrought iron gates and fencing that had been brought all the way from New York to mark the perimeter of the estate were to her the walls of her prison, and every time she observed this, Honus reminded her that he held the keys to these gates and would let her out at any time. Twenty years later, Miles still flips hamburgers for a living and Mrs Whiting still owns him. And while there, he made a pact with the devil in the shape of Mrs Francine Whiting, the owner of nearly everything and everyone in Empire Falls, that she would pay for his mother’s medical care if Miles would work off the debt by running the Empire Grill. He made it all the way to college, but came home before graduation to look after his terminally ill mother against her wishes. Miles Roby nearly escaped from the small run-down town of Empire Falls once upon a time.
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