Groundskeeping
  • Published:
    Mar-2022 (Hardcover)
    Feb-2023 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    336
  • Rating:
  • Purchase:
  • Share:
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams -- this is "an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations" (Ann Patchett, best-selling author of The Dutch House).

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course.

Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks -- a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma -- who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants -- struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with family and home. 

Exquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision, restraint, and depth of feeling, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
Sub-Genres
People / Creatures
Click on any of the links above to see more books like this one.



EDITIONS
Sign in to see more editions
    •  
    • Feb-2023
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0593314786
    • ISBN13: 9780593314784
    •  
    • Mar-2022
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0571374301
    • ISBN13: 9780571374304
    •  
    • Jan-2023
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0571371086
    • ISBN13: 9780571371082
    • First Edition
    • Mar-2022
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593320506
    • ISBN13: 9780593320501
    •  
    • Mar-2022
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0571371078
    • ISBN13: 9780571371075
    •  
    • Mar-2022
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0571371094
    • ISBN13: 9780571371099
    •  
    • Mar-2022
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0593320514
    • ISBN13: 9780593320518
    •  
    • Aug-2022
    • Center Point
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1638084068
    • ISBN13: 9781638084068
    • Large Print
    • Library Binding



View the Complete Lee Cole Book List