{"product_id":"buckeye-a-novel-1","title":"Buckeye: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A small-town novel of epic proportions” (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67604878819635,"sku":"9780593595053","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/buckeye-a-novel-1","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}