{"product_id":"ohio-9781501174483","title":"Ohio","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Markley is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eOhio\u003c\/i\u003e, which NPR called a \"masterpiece.\" A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Markley's other books include the memoir \u003ci\u003ePublish This Book\u003c\/i\u003e and the travelogue \u003ci\u003eTales of Iceland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616643649810,"sku":"9781501174483","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3151a838-f5d9-4365-a07f-378188933aee.jpg?v=1732506445","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ohio-9781501174483","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}