Groundskeeping / Lee Cole.
"A love story set in the foothills of Appalachia about two very different people--Owen, from Kentucky, and Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants--navigating the entanglements of class and identify in an America coming apart at the seams"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593320501
- ISBN: 0593320506
- Physical Description: 323 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Borzoi book." |
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Genre: | Romance fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rolla Public.
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- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rolla Public Library | FIC COL (Text) | 38256101835589 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Groundskeeping : A Novel
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Summary
Groundskeeping : A Novel
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK * 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.