Groundskeeping Author:Lee Cole 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 writin... more »g 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.« less