Patrick Ryan Presents BUCKEYE

One fleeting moment in the summer after the war, and four people spend the rest of their lives inside its consequences.

Patrick Ryan brings Buckeye to New Canaan Library — a novel spanning two midwestern families from the Second World War to the end of the century. Cal Jenkins, wounded not by the war but by being unable to serve in it, shares a single life-altering moment with Margaret Salt, who is running from her own past. Cal is married to Becky, whose spiritual gifts let the living speak to the dead; Margaret’s husband Felix is at sea and presumed safe, until a telegram suggests otherwise. Ann Patchett called it a glorious sweep of a novel; Jenna Bush Hager, one that comes along once a decade. The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, NPR and People all named it among the year’s best.

About the author. Ryan wrote the story collections The Dream Life of Astronauts and Send Me, has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, was associate editor of Granta, and edits the literary magazine One Story.

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