Patrick Ryan Buckeye : The international bestseller: 'It soars' Tom Hanks

A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. Poignant, powerful IndependentOmniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental New York TimesIts not just a great Midwestern novel, its a great novel, period Financial TimesMAY, 1945. As news of the Allied victory in Europe reaches the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a woman named Margaret Salt walks into a hardware store and asks the man behind the counter, Cal Jenkins, for a radio. What happens next will change both of their lives forever. While the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie but nothing can remain hidden in a small town. The consequences of that longago encounter will intertwine the fates of two families, rippling through the next generation and compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye is a dazzling portrait of the human spirit by way of one unforgettable community the twisted roads we take to achieve forgiveness and redemption and above all a universal longing for love and connection. Ive been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two Wars one of Omaha Beach, the other of the Ia Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars TOM HANKSFunny and tender... Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers ANN PATCHETTI love this novel with my entire... | Patrick Ryan Buckeye : The international bestseller: 'It soars' Tom Hanks