{"product_id":"ohio-9781501174483","title":"Ohio","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stephen Markley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.\" --NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] descendent of the Dickensian 'social novel' by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.\" --\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A book that has stayed with me ever since I put it down.\" --Seth Meyers, host of \u003ci\u003eLate Night with Seth Meyers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's Bill Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans, and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her family and the mother of her best friend and first love, whose disappearance spurs the mystery at the heart of the novel; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he's tried desperately to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the football team triggers the novel's shocking climax. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet over the course of a single evening, \u003ci\u003eOhio \u003c\/i\u003etoggles between the perspectives of these unforgettable characters as they unearth dark secrets, revisit old regrets and uncover--and compound--bitter betrayals. Before the evening is through, these narratives converge masterfully to reveal a mystery so dark and shocking it will take your breath away.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45029904220311,"sku":"9781501174483","price":918.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501174483.webp?v=1769198523","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ohio-9781501174483","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}