![]() ![]() 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. This is the world the characters in Stephen Markley’s brilliant debut novel, Ohio, inherit. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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