Buckeye: A Read with Jenna Pick

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ΓÇó ΓÇ£A small-town novel of epic proportionsΓÇ¥ (Tom Perrotta),this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generationsfrom World War II to the late twentieth century. ΓÇ£I love this book with my entire heart.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöAnn NapolitanoNew York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. In BonhomieOhioa stolen moment of passionsparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europebinds Cal Jenkinsa man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in itto Margaret Salta woman trying to obscure her past. CalΓÇÖs wifeBeckyhas a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the deadhelping families connect with those theyΓÇÖve lost. MargaretΓÇÖs husbandFelixis serving on a Navy cargo shipout of harmΓÇÖs wayΓÇöuntil a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Lateras the country reconstructs in the postwar booma secret grows in BonhomieΓÇöbut nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern Americathe consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both familiescompelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. Sweeping yet intimaterich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spiritBuckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.