![]() This surreal parade sets the stage quite effectively as the author leads the reader quickly to 9/11- the event that cements a ‘before and after’ time frame for our main characters. The novel begins in 2007 with the funeral of former football star Rick Brinklan, killed in Iraq. Four high school friends, all of whom took a different path in life, all of them haunted by actions, decisions, and memories of the past, compounded by their current day realities, return home at the same time, with shocking results. ![]() This atmosphere is more in the forefront than in the background as Stephen Markley captures the mentality of those born and raised in this environment. ![]() A marginalized area simmering in hostility, hammered by a stubborn economic depression, and an unprecedented epidemic opiate crisis. Ohio by Stephen Markley is a 2018 Simon & Schuster publication.īy now the plight of those living in a what is commonly known as ‘The Rust Belt", is etched into our consciousness. At once a murder mystery and a social critique, Ohio ingeniously captures the fractured zeitgeist of a nation through the viewfinder of an embattled Midwestern town and offers a prescient vision for America at the dawn of a turbulent new age. ![]()
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