A glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of small town life. Its funny and tender, realistic and strange. Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers. I have a feeling that with this book hes going to be everyone's favourite writer -- Ann Patchett I love this novel with my entire heart. Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. Buckeye tells the story of two families across sixty years of American history; the novel is wise and heartbreaking and full of wonderful characters who struggle across decades as we all do to live as their whole selves. I could not recommend this book more highly -- Ann Napolitano Offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laugh - and all of this in abundance -- Richard Russo, author of EMPIRE FALLS and the NORTH BATH trilogy A small-town novel of epic proportions, full of unforgettable characters and thorny human dilemmas. Patrick Ryan conjures a vanished America with uncanny skill, and writes with deep insight and lyrical intelligence about war and adultery, the mysteries of sexuality and family life, and the strange paths we have to travel to forgive or at least begin to understand the people whove hurt us the most. This is a novel to settle in with, a world unto itself -- Tom Perrotta, author of THE LEFTOEVERS, ELECTION and TRACY FLICK CAN'T WIN
