?Funny and tender ... Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers' ANN PATCHETT ?I
love this novel with my entire heart ... Wise and heartbreaking' ANN NAPOLITANO In Bonhomie
Ohio a wartime affair keeps two people afloat through their less-than-ideal marriages. But in
small towns nothing stays hidden forever and on the fourth of July when the town comes
together to celebrate its Centennial and the ten-year anniversary of the end of the war the
firework display of personal revelations drowns out the sound of actual fireworks. There's
Becky and her well-meaning seances her husband Cal with his one short leg and the multiple
discomforts it brings him Everett and his furious correspondence with the president and
Margaret with her obsessive decorating and attempts to paper over the horrors of her childhood
while her husband Felix keeps parts of his own life safely hidden. And then there's the
question of Tom... Full of compassion humour and small-town charm Buckeye is a dazzling
portrait of an unforgettable community - of hopes and fears loves and losses and above all an
indomitable longing for connection.
