![]() ![]() ![]() Novels that simultaneously attempt to explicate political history and plumb the human condition are liable to succeed at neither, but Stephen Markley’s exuberant embrace of such risk is laudable in itself. Markley can’t resist using his characters as mouthpieces. the determination to create an explosive powerhouse of a book emanates from every page here. But for all its genuinely absorbing qualities, Ohio retains a whiff of calculation. ![]() The diverse trajectories of these young people provide the author an arsenal of cultural signifiers with which to mine his fictional landscape, as well as the opportunity to expound on contemporary politics, religion, sex, drugs, literature, music and much else. Seth Meyers One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio. There’s the Great Recession, the flight of manufacturing, the ravages of addiction, sexual violence-the full smorgasbord of American tragedy. The authors acclaimed debut novel offers a contemporary take on a fictional northeast Ohio town. ![]() Extraordinary.beautifully precise.an earnestly ambitious debut. every one of this socially representative cast of characters is broken the only variety is by what. Buy a cheap copy of Ohio book by Stephen Markley. A prehistory of now, Markley’s bruising novel chronicles a decade in which those in the sinking parts of our nation began looking for anyone to blame and anything to relieve the pain of loss. ![]()
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