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Buckeye by Patrick Ryan | The Grief No One Was Allowed to Name
Buckeye looks like a classic American family saga: two families, two wars, one small Ohio town, and decades of intertwined lives. Patrick Ryan is doing something quieter underneath that familiar structure — showing how entire families can be shaped by grief that nobody is allowed to name.Moving from World War II through Vietnam and into the decades that follow, Buckeye follows marriages, friendships and family histories built around secrets that cannot remain buried forever. Ryan is less interested in dramatic revelation than in the emotional consequences of silence: the private losses that…
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