![]() The first is Bill Ashcraft, who returns to his hometown on a mysterious errand he's agreed to deliver a package from Louisiana to Ohio, although he doesn't know what it contains. Markley follows four characters, all of whom knew one another as high school students in the fictional city of New Canaan. Markley's debut is a sprawling, beautiful novel that explores the aftermath of the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a powerful look at the tenuous bonds that hold people together at their best and at their worst. ![]() Ohio, though, is more of a nightmare than a dream. flamethrower of a collective dream in which we were all born and traveled and died." The novel then jumps in time to 2013, six years after that parade: "It's hard to say where any of this ends or how it ever began, because what you eventually learn is that there is no such thing as linear," Markley writes. The town of New Canaan has gathered to salute Rick Brinklan, a native of the city who was killed in action in Iraq. Ohio, the debut novel from author Stephen Markley, begins with a parade, but it's not a happy one. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ohio Author Stephen Markley ![]()
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