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. There’s the Great Recession, the flight of manufacturing, the ravages of addiction, sexual violence-the full smorgasbord of American tragedy. every one of this socially representative cast of characters is broken the only variety is by what. 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. ohio BUY NOW THE DEBUT OF A MAJOR TALENT A LYRICAL AND EMOTIONAL NOVEL SET IN AN ARCHETYPAL SMALL TOWN IN NORTHEASTERN OHIOA REGION RAVAGED BY THE GREAT RECESSION, AN OPIOID CRISIS, AND THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTANDEPICTING ONE FEVERISH, FATEFUL SUMMER NIGHT IN 2013 WHEN FOUR FORMER CLASSMATES CONVERGE ON THEIR HOMETOWN, EACH WITH A.
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