Ohio Ohio

Ohio

    • 4.1 • 194 Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

“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.

There’s Bill Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans, and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her family and the mother of her best friend and first love, whose disappearance spurs the mystery at the heart of the novel; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried desperately to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax.

Set over the course of a single evening, Ohio toggles between the perspectives of these unforgettable characters as they unearth dark secrets, revisit old regrets and uncover—and compound—bitter betrayals. Before the evening is through, these narratives converge masterfully to reveal a mystery so dark and shocking it will take your breath away.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
August 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
10.4
MB

Customer Reviews

DAGF21 ,

Tragic story but magnificent writing!

The gore and cruelty of the storyline kept me from rating it a 5. But the prose was eloquent, descriptive and emotion provoking. There were no redeeming, heroic characters…maybe one, Dan Eaton. A page turner and I truly hope it is not based on any truth…

Me748;7(!;7; ,

Highly recommend

I loved this book. I liked the character development and the depiction of multiple factors, including societal norms and culture, that influenced the characters behavior and choices. What happens in childhood and adolescence has a significant impact on who we are as adults. The author also accurately reflects a Midwestern town that once thrived, yet declined in many ways following the decline of manufacturing and blue collar jobs that paid a living wage.

dontwantanickname ,

No substance

Although well written, there is almost no story, no plot. The characters are elevated low-lifes who totally lack substance or value as people. After struggling to find a reason other than having paid for this book to continue reading it, I quit wasting my time and gave up on it.

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