{"product_id":"buckeye","title":"Buckeye","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy: Patrick Ryan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.\u003cbr\u003eYou won’t want to put it down. You won’t want to let them go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A small-town novel of epic proportions” (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLater, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were, and what the future might hold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuckeye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46523591491735,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/0349\/4039\/files\/9780593595039_6b1a1.jpg?v=1767204739","url":"https:\/\/littledistrictbooks.com\/products\/buckeye","provider":"Little District Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}