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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100593595033
ISBN-139780593595039
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Book TitleBuckeye: a Read with Jenna Pick : a Novel
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicFamily Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorPatrick Ryan
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight24.4 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Reviews"[A] luminous and tender 20th-century saga of wounded souls and small-town secrets." -- The Guardian "The combination of unconventional sex lives, sardonic wit and 20th-century American history recalls the early novels of John Irving . . . Ultimately, the triumph of his book is the way it captures the nature of mistakes, both the holes dug and the bridges built." -- Financial Times "Enhanced with a hazy sentimentality, Ryan's quiet drama conjures moral complexities behind the facade of carefully crafted mid-century lives." -- The Washington Post "This mesmerizing, tender novel follows two Ohio families from the 1920s through the '60s as they find and lose love and loved ones through what one character aptly calls 'the unraveling of time.'" -- People , "Must-Read Books of Fall" "Well-crafted and poignant . . . Buckeye draws the reader into its time and place and simply beguiles. This chronicle of leaving and loss, loving and forgiving, burns slowly and hopefully until the end." -- BookPage " Buckeye is a thing of wonder. It's my book of the year. I couldn't love it more." --Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark "'Involving' and 'unbelievably well-written' are the best ways to describe Buckeye. It's the kind of book that reads like the culmination of a writer's career--a magnum opus of depth and care." --Minneapolis Star Tribune " Buckeye is epic, and it is heartfelt . . . [It] will surely come to be regarded as one of the best novels of the year." -- The Anniston Star " Buckeye offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laugh and all of this in abundance." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath trilogy "Heartfelt and at times harrowing, Buckeye is both an absorbing portrait of an American past and a sympathetic exploration of what continues to sustain us and to plague us." --Alice McDermott, author of Absolution "I've been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two wars--one of Omaha Beach, the other of the la Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars." --Tom Hanks "Patrick Ryan conjures a vanished America with uncanny skill and writes with deep insight and lyrical intelligence...This is a novel to settle in with, a world unto itself." --Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children "A deeply compassionate book . . . Patrick Ryan tells a story we very much need right now: how forgiveness might creep up--despite everything--over time, tender and elusive and ever-complex." --Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves "Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. I could not recommend this book more highly." --Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful "Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favorite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he's going to be everyone's favorite writer." --Ann Patchett "Filled with wit and emotion on every page, this is a stirring paean to the joys and sorrows of family." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "[A] tale that comes across as absolutely authentic and deeply satisfying." -- Booklist, starred review, "Omniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental, Buckeye is a reminder of the deep pleasure of following a cast of characters over their entire lives, through births, deaths, marriages, tragedies and, in this case, hard-won reconciliations. . . The author clearly loves these people, and he makes the safe bet that you will, too." -- The New York Times Book Review "Enhanced with a hazy sentimentality, Ryan's quiet drama conjures moral complexities behind the facade of carefully crafted mid-century lives." -- The Washington Post "This mesmerizing, tender novel follows two Ohio families from the 1920s through the '60s as they find and lose love and loved ones through what one character aptly calls 'the unraveling of time.'" -- People , "Must-Read Books of Fall" "Well-crafted and poignant . . . Buckeye draws the reader into its time and place and simply beguiles. This chronicle of leaving and loss, loving and forgiving, burns slowly and hopefully until the end." -- BookPage " Buckeye is a thing of wonder. It's my book of the year. I couldn't love it more." --Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark "'Involving' and 'unbelievably well-written' are the best ways to describe Buckeye. It's the kind of book that reads like the culmination of a writer's career--a magnum opus of depth and care." --Minneapolis Star Tribune " Buckeye offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laugh and all of this in abundance." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath trilogy "Heartfelt and at times harrowing, Buckeye is both an absorbing portrait of an American past and a sympathetic exploration of what continues to sustain us and to plague us." --Alice McDermott, author of Absolution "I've been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two wars--one of Omaha Beach, the other of the la Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars." --Tom Hanks "Patrick Ryan conjures a vanished America with uncanny skill and writes with deep insight and lyrical intelligence...This is a novel to settle in with, a world unto itself." --Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children "A deeply compassionate book . . . Patrick Ryan tells a story we very much need right now: how forgiveness might creep up--despite everything--over time, tender and elusive and ever-complex." --Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves "Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. I could not recommend this book more highly." --Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful "Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favorite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he's going to be everyone's favorite writer." --Ann Patchett "Filled with wit and emotion on every page, this is a stirring paean to the joys and sorrows of family." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This quietly affecting and nuanced story . . . deftly blends in surprising twists and insights as it follows seemingly ordinary people living seemingly typical lives, resulting in a tale that comes across as absolutely authentic and deeply satisfying." -- Booklist, starred review, " Buckeye is a glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of smalltown life. It's funny and tender, realistic and strange. Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favorite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he's going to be everyone's favorite writer." --Ann Patchett "I love this novel with my entire heart. Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. Buckeye tells the story of two families across sixty years of American history; the novel is wise and heartbreaking and full of wonderful characters who struggle across decades--as we all do--to live as their whole selves. I could not recommend this book more highly." --Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful "Patrick Ryan's ambitious new novel Buckeye offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laugh--and all of this in abundance." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath trilogy " Buckeye is a small-town novel of epic proportions, full of unforgettable characters and thorny human dilemmas. Patrick Ryan conjures a vanished America with uncanny skill and writes with deep insight and lyrical intelligence about war and adultery, the mysteries of sexuality and family life, and the strange paths we have to travel to forgive--or at least begin to understand--the people who've hurt us the most. This is a novel to settle in with, a world unto itself." --Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children "Heartfelt and at times harrowing, Buckeye is both an absorbing portrait of an American past and a sympathetic exploration of what continues to sustain us--and to plague us. There are no heroes or villains in Patrick Ryan's wonderful novel, only recognizably human creatures, each one of them drawn with refreshing honesty; each one flawed, noble, confused, passionate, lonely, loving, and, above all, real." --Alice McDermott, author of Absolution "Patrick Ryan's Buckeye is a deeply compassionate book, expansive in scope yet trained with extraordinary focus on the secrets that divide and bind us. Ryan brings to life two unexpectedly overlapping families in one small Ohio town, people driven by longing and bruised by loss. In this elegant and quietly bracing novel, Ryan tells a story I very much needed right now: how forgiveness might creep up--despite everything--over time, tender and elusive and ever-complex. I was taken in by this book, utterly transported." --Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves, " Buckeye is a glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of smalltown life. It's funny and tender, realistic and strange. Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favorite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he's going to be everyone's favorite writer." --Ann Patchett "I love this novel with my entire heart. Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. Buckeye tells the story of two families across sixty years of American history; the novel is wise and heartbreaking and full of wonderful characters who struggle across decades--as we all do--to live as their whole selves. I could not recommend this book more highly." --Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful "Patrick Ryan's ambitious new novel Buckeye offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laugh--and all of this in abundance." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath trilogy, " Buckeye offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laughand all of this in abundance." --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath trilogy "Heartfelt and at times harrowing, Buckeye is both an absorbing portrait of an American past and a sympathetic exploration of what continues to sustain usand to plague us. There are no heroes or villains, only recognizably human creatures . . . each one flawed, noble, confused, passionate, lonely, loving, and, above all, real." --Alice McDermott, author of Absolution "I've been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two wars--one of Omaha Beach, the other of the la Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars." --Tom Hanks "Patrick Ryan conjures a vanished America with uncanny skill and writes with deep insight and lyrical intelligence about war and adultery, the mysteries of sexuality and family life, and the strange paths we have to travel to forgive--or at least begin to understand--the people who've hurt us the most. This is a novel to settle in with, a world unto itself." --Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children "A deeply compassionate book . . . Patrick Ryan tells a story we very much need right now: how forgiveness might creep up--despite everything--over time, tender and elusive and ever-complex. I was taken in by this book, utterly transported." --Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves "Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. Buckeye is wise and heartbreaking and full of individuals who struggle across decades--as we all do--to live as their whole selves. I could not recommend this book more highly." --Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful "Full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of smalltown life, Buckeye is funny and tender, realistic and strange. Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favorite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he's going to be everyone's favorite writer." --Ann Patchett "This quietly affecting and nuanced story . . . deftly blends in surprising twists and insights as it follows seemingly ordinary people living seemingly typical lives, resulting in a tale that comes across as absolutely authentic and deeply satisfying." -- Booklist, starred review, " Buckeye is a glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of smalltown life. It's funny and tender, realistic and strange. Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favorite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he's going to be everyone's favorite writer." --Ann Patchett "I love this novel with my entire heart. Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. Buckeye tells the story of two families across sixty years of American history; the novel is wise and heartbreaking and full of wonderful characters who struggle across decades--as we all do--to live as their whole selves. I could not recommend this book more highly." --Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful
SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - A "mesmerizing" ( People ) novel that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. "A glorious sweep of a novel."--Ann Patchett "Captivating."-- The New York Times Book Review "A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love with these characters."--Jenna Bush Hager One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's way--until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie--but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A "mesmerizing" ( People ) novel that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. "A glorious sweep of a novel."--Ann Patchett "Captivating."-- The New York Times Book Review "A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love with these characters."--Jenna Bush Hager One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's way--until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie--but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.
