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Author Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye a stellar read spanning decades of American life
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Buckeye by Patrick Ryan is about sprawling decades of change in the United States, viewed from the periphery.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF PATRICK RYAN, RANDOM HOUSE
Myle Yan Tay
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By Patrick Ryan
Historical fiction/Random House/Hardcover/464 pages/$44.14
While ostensibly about the interweaving lives of two married couples in Bonhomie, Ohio, Patrick Ryan’s novel Buckeye is about much more than that.

