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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 seamsthis is an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations Ann Patchett bestselling author of The Dutch House
In the runup to the 2016 election Owen Callahan an aspiring writer moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trumpsupporting 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 lacksa prestigious position an Ivy League education success as a writer They begin a secret relationship and as they grow closer Almawho comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrantsstruggles to understand Owens 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
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