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''Beautifully textured ... Anne Tyler by way of Sally Rooney.'' New York Times
''A coming-of-age story inextricably bound with a love story.'' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
''Smart, funny, exhilarating.'' LILY KING

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course.

It's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home.

Exploring the boundaries between life and art, and how our upbringings affect the people we can become, Groundskeeping i

Groundskeeping

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 5 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571371082
      978-0571371082
      ISBN-10 0571371086
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Beautifully textured ... Anne Tyler by way of Sally Rooney.'' New York Times
      ''A coming-of-age story inextricably bound with a love story.'' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
      ''Smart, funny, exhilarating.'' LILY KING

      Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course.

      It's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home.

      Exploring the boundaries between life and art, and how our upbringings affect the people we can become, Groundskeeping i

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