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Stephen Markley
The debut of a major talent, a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio - a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - 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 country’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 Markley’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. There’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 “The Cane” 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 he’s tried to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the captain of the football team triggers the novel’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.
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Editorial Review
A powerful and timely debut Told from the perspective of four former classmates who return home after the untimely death of a friend in Iraq, Ohio is an ambitious debut novel that takes the listener deep into the Rust Belt—to the kind of place where the American dream seemed to have been born, but after factory closures and broken promises is now out of reach. As the four narratives intertwine, author Stepen Markley pulls no punches when revealing timely issues of opioid addiction, resentment, and economic strife in a post-9/11 US. The story is as relentless as it is valuable for a listener like me who could stand to peek behind the curtain of lives far different from my own. These characters’ stories are ones I won’t soon forget. —Catherine H., Audible Editor
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good story
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Conflicted and bored
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Wow. A novel of the times.
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Author just nails all the tones of voices. It’s cool to see how the early 2000s played out for high school kids and how they grow into adults. Full of pathos.
Richly rewarding. I’ll read again a couple of 3 audiobooks from now, as there are lots of details I’m sure I missed the first time.
Great read!
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So many heart warming moments punctuated with heart pounding horrors, that you just can’t let it go long after you’ve finished the last paragraph.
This is one of those books where you just get an immediate sense that you’ve come upon something important.
Like a car crash you can’t look away from
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Compelling characters who have ties to one another while having their own unique story lines throughout, masterful.
2nd time around is just as good!
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Without Words
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Spot-on!
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The story is a little messy but it is writing about messy people. Sometimes it is like a walk though one of those dark inked grainy graphic novels but it is never dull, I guarantee you will never want to toss the book aside. The denouement is not unbelievable because the writer has skilfully waltzed you to that part of the show. It is unexpected but believable and with hindsite, inevitable.
I do not want to say more because this book is an immersive experience.
Its genius lies in taking you into its world and keeping you riveted as you experience the characters. The characters are the writers strength they are all magnificent creations in their own right.
You will like this book even if you do not feel asbsolutely elated after reading it.
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