''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
