Buckeye

Description

Title: Buckeye
Author: Ryan, Patrick
Format: Trade Paperback C Format
Publication date: 02/09/2025
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781526689320

Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye, by Patrick Ryan is a novel revealing a dazzling portrait of the human spirit by way of one unforgettable community.

‘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 Ia Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars’ TOM HANKS

‘Funny and tender … Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers’ ANN PATCHETT

‘I love this novel with my entire heart … Wise and heartbreaking’ ANN NAPOLITANO

May, 1945. As news of the Allied victory in Europe reaches the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a woman named Margaret Salt walks into a hardware store and asks the man behind the counter, Cal Jenkins, for a radio. What happens next will change both of their lives forever.

While the country reconstructs in the post-war boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie – and nothing can remain hidden in a small town. The consequences of that long-ago encounter will intertwine the fates of two families, rippling through the next generation and compelling them to re-examine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.