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GROUNDSKEEPING
By: Lee Cole
A Novel
Knopf
March 2022
On Sale: March 8, 2022
Featuring: Owen Callahan; Alma Hazdic
336 pages
ISBN: 0593320506
EAN: 9780593320501
Kindle: B096XFM4FP
Hardcover / e-Book
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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.
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