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Author:

Cole, Lee, 1990- author.

Title:

Groundskeeping / Lee Cole.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

323 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--Election--2016--Fiction.
Private universities and colleges--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Authors--Fiction.
Bosnian Americans--Fiction.
Kentucky--Fiction.
Rural-urban divide--Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Novels.

Notes:

"A Borzoi book." "Read with Jenna"--Jacket.

Summary:

"A love story set in the foothills of Appalachia about two very different people--Owen, from Kentucky, and Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants--navigating the entanglements of class and identify in an America coming apart at the seams"-- Provided by publisher.
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting 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 lacks--a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma--who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants--struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with family and home.

ISBN:

0593320506
9780593320501

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1297039130

LCCN:

2021022465

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