Groundskeeping a novel

An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams -- this is "an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations" (Ann Pa...

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Main Author: Cole, Lee, 1990- (Author)
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Language: English
Published: 2022.
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Summary: An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams -- this is "an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations" (Ann Patchett, best-selling author of The Dutch House). In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks -- a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma -- who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants -- struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with family and home. Exquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision, restraint, and depth of feeling, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
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ISBN: 9780593320518
Author Notes: LEE COLE was born and grew up in rural Kentucky. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he now lives in New York.