TY - BOOK AU - Markley,Stephen TI - Ohio: a novel SN - 9781982100094 (paperback) U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks KW - Coming of age KW - Fiction KW - City and town life KW - fast KW - Homecoming KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Life change events KW - Ohio KW - Bildungsromans KW - lcgft N2 - On one fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up, each of them with a mission, all of them haunted by regrets, secrets, lost loves. There's Bill Ashcraft, an alcoholic, drug-abusing activist, whose fruitless ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to New Orleans, and now back to "The Cane" with a mysterious package strapped to the underside of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting the mother of her former lover; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he's tried to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the captain of the football team triggers the novel's shocking climax ER -