07/29/2026
Such a great read.
Have you read Buckeye by Patrick Ryan?
Ann Patchett, the author of Whistler, says "Buckeye by Patrick Ryan is my Great American Novel. Though most of the book centers around WWII, the scope of the characters' experiences stretch back to the First World War and ahead to Vietnam. The novel shows how our country and its citizens have been shaped by war, and how we don't know exactly what to do with ourselves in peacetime. All of this is seen through the lens of the small Ohio town of Bonhomie, where the lives of two couples become intertwined. This is a glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of small-town life. It is funny and tender, realistic and strange, going well beyond history and into the heart of our nation."
