You write so well, with great command of Deep POV, a strong narrative voice, and a seamless sneaking in of backstory--you pack in so much --e.g.

...a very restless boy, as his mother used to say, carefully avoiding to use harsher words. But Richie knew what she meant, and naughty was actually the mildest term. He was an ungrateful boy, that’s what he was. Selfish and insensitive, too. And they both knew where he got that, although nobody ever mentioned Harold, his father.

And now to finish reading...!