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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 several sprawling decades of change in the United States of America, viewed from the periphery.

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan is about sprawling decades of change in the United States, viewed from the periphery.

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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.

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