Ohio
by Stephen Markley
Buy on Amazon“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR “[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “A book that has stayed with me ever since I put it down.” —Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.…
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"The sprawling, angry debut novel from Stephen Markley follows four high school acquaintances who return to their Midwestern hometown of New Canaan on the same day for very different reasons. Markley deftly addresses issues such as war, PTSD and sexual assault in this book that races toward a horrifying conclusion – it’s a beautiful novel that explores the aftermath of the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the tenuous bonds that hold people together at their best and at their worst."
NPR Books We Love — 2018 · apps.npr.org
""Ohio," by Stephen Markley, is a book that has stayed with me ever since I put it down."
By the Book: Seth Meyers · nytimes.com