Groundskeeping

✍ Scribed by Lee Cole

• Book ID: 110570952
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 394 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593320518

✦ Synopsis

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...