Bonhomie, Ohio, is a town shaped by secrets. In the jubilant days after World War II, Cal Jenkins, haunted by the shame of not serving, shares a fleeting, passionate moment with Margaret Salt, a woman desperate to escape her past. That moment binds their families in ways neither can foresee.
Becky Jenkins, Cal’s wife, is a seer who brings comfort to grieving families by conjuring the voices of the dead. Felix Salt, Margaret’s husband, sails safely on a Navy ship—until a telegram arrives that may change everything.
As America transforms in the postwar years, their hidden choices echo across generations. Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, hailed as “a small-town novel of epic proportions,” is a sweeping, intimate portrait of family, love, and the long reach of secrets.
