Ohio

Ohio

Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection

* Vulture * Time * New York Post * The Millions *

The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohioâ€”a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanâ€”depicting one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013 when four former classmates converge on their hometown, each with a mission, all haunted by the ghosts of their shared histories.

Since the turn of the century, a generation has come of age knowing only war, recession, political gridlock, racial hostility, and a simmering fear of environmental calamity. In the countryâ€™s forgotten pockets, where industry long ago fled, where foreclosures, Walmarts, and opiates riddle the land, death rates for rural whites have skyrocketed, fueled by suicide, addiction and a rampant sense of marginalization and disillusionment. This is the world the characters in Stephen Markleyâ€™s brilliant debut novel, Ohio, inherit. This is New Canaan.

On one fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up, each of them with a mission, all of them haunted by regrets, secrets, lost loves. Thereâ€™s Bill Ashcraft, an alcoholic, drug-abusing activist, whose fruitless ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to New Orleans, and now back to â€œThe Caneâ€ with a mysterious package strapped to the underside of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting the mother of her former lover; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart heâ€™s tried to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the captain of the football team triggers the novelâ€™s shocking climax.

At once a murder mystery and a social critique, Ohio ingeniously captures the fractured zeitgeist of a nation through the viewfinder of an embattled Midwestern town and offers a prescient vision for America at the dawn of a turbulent new age.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 1501174479SRQ
ReleaseDate 2018-08-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501174476

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	1501174479SRQ
ReleaseDate	2018-08-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501174476

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