Ohio

“A wild, indignant, and devastating masterpiece of a ebook.” —NPR

“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by means of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays naked modern tradition clashes, displaying us who we’re and the way we received right here.” —O, The Oprah Journal

“A ebook that has stayed with me ever since I put it down.” —Seth Meyers, host of Late Night time with Seth Meyers

One sweltering night time in 2013, 4 former highschool classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.

There’s Invoice Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing younger activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans, and now again house with a mysterious package deal strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her household and the mom of her finest buddy and past love, whose disappearance spurs the thriller on the coronary heart of the novel; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three excursions in Iraq, house for a dinner date with the highschool sweetheart he’s tried desperately to overlook; and the gorgeous, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the soccer crew triggers the novel’s stunning climax.

Set over the course of a single night,
Ohio toggles between the views of those unforgettable characters as they unearth darkish secrets and techniques, revisit outdated regrets and uncover—and compound—bitter betrayals. Earlier than the night is thru, these narratives converge masterfully to disclose a thriller so darkish and stunning it would take your breath away.