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LocationOakland
StatusChecked Out
Call NoF RYA
TitleBuckeye : a novel / Patrick Ryan.
AuthorRyan, Patrick, 1965- author.
Barcode47660111114613
CollectionFiction
Summary"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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OaklandChecked Out47660111114613F RYAFictionNew ShelfDue on 10/9/2025

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593595039
Personal Name Ryan, Patrick, 1965- author.
Title Statement Buckeye : a novel / Patrick Ryan.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Random House, [2025]
Physical Description 452 p. Hardcover 24cm.
Content Type text rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Summary, Etc. "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family secrets Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Small cities Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Spiritualism Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States History 20th century Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Ohio Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft.