NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “A glorious
sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families
across generations from World War II to the late twentieth century. “Mesmerizing.”— People
“Captivating.”— The New York Times Book Review “A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love
with these characters.”—Jenna Bush Hager ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York
Times Book Review The Washington Post NPR Chicago Public Library One town. Two families.
A secret that changes everything. In 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.
Later 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. Sweeping 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.
