num_pages: 323
description: 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 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 writer.
language: English
title: Groundskeeping
publisher: Knopf