Elsewhere by Richard Russo

I gobbled up this beautiful book the past few days. I LOVED it.

I take pride in having managed to parlay the same genetic character traits that bedeviled her—stubbornness, defiance, an inclination to obsess, an excess of will, a potentially dangerous need to see things my own way— into a rich and satisfying career. 

Richard Russo,  Elsewhere (a memoir) page 204