Groundskeeping: A Read with Jenna Pick A Novel
Groundskeeping: A Read with Jenna Pick A Novel by Lee Cole is published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on February 14, 2023, and spans 336 pages. This novel explores the complex dynamics of class and identity through the lives of two distinct characters, Owen Callahan and Alma Hazdic, as they navigate their personal and societal challenges in a divided America during the lead-up to the 2016 election.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into themes of coming of age and the intricacies of relationships shaped by differing backgrounds. Owen, an aspiring writer, returns to Kentucky to live with his family while working as a groundskeeper at a local college, where he meets Alma, a successful writer in residence. Their secret relationship unfolds against the backdrop of their contrasting experiences and the societal tensions of the time, providing a poignant examination of love and identity.
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An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams
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.
Exquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision, restraint, and depth of feeling, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
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