Ohio By Stephen Markley - Review
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2023
- A review of Ohio By Stephen Markley.
Mentions - @ameliabarlowbooks
One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.
There’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.
Set over the course of a single evening, Ohio toggles 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.
I can't remember the last time a book has haunted me this much.
Deluge is my book of the year . Ohio was my book of the year when it was released.
I discovered your channel after reading The Love Songs of WEB DuBois and have now watched all your reviews. After sitting on my TBR list for years, this video has me excited to start Ohio when I finish the book I’m currently reading!
Deaths of despair
I’ve had this book for a while. And every so often it comes to my attention again. So I’m now going to add it to my pile of long books that I will read over the winter. Thanks!
I have this sitting in my shelf unread and ignored. Gonna change that immediately. Love your hometown friend catch up anecdote - im afraid to take stock of my own acquaintances’ where are they nows 😳
This is a book I've been hoping to get to for ages, so I appreciated your thoughts on it!
Almost done with The Deluge, but boy is it a lot of work.
I personally wasn’t able to finish The Deluge, dropping it maybe 25% in. But I still would like to check out Ohio. The Deluge just felt too long and meandering to hold my attention.
Loved it!
I’m sold. I’ll be reading this soon. I did recently pick this book up. Your book comparison did it. Thank you.
Added to tbr - love your reviews.
I really love your reviews. I’m very sorry for the loss of so many of your friends.
I’ll definitely get my hands on this one! I can’t wait to hear you review Rabbit Hutch. I loved that one.
This has been my favourite book of the last few years so I'm always so happy to hear how much someone else loved it. I completely agree that the writing is indulgent but I loved it so much still 😂
a masterpiece of a review for a masterpiece of a book, so glad you loved it!
Great video! This vid & your channel just popped up for me on my YT homepage, and I'm so glad it did because you read Lit Fic (my FAVORITE) & I need more Lit Fic BookTubers in my life!! Subscribed 😊
Brilliant review! The titles familiar to me but I’m not sure where I’ve come across it before. It sounds like an impactful novel.
I loved this novel. I thought it was brilliantly structured in the way that each character's story can almost be a standalone novella, each telling a story of a dark side of modern life in America, yet each revealing a bit more about the central mystery, nudging the overall narrative arch further just a bit until the climax. If I have to make some criticism it is that some of the characters are somewhat stock from a high school drama--the jock, the cheerleader, etc., and some of the peripheral characters blend into one another. But these are minor quibbles. Shame that this book (as well as The Deluge, which I have not read) seems somewhat overlooked by the British reading community.