![]() ![]() She started with Percoset, moved on to Oxycontin and meth, finally shot heroin. Kaylyn Lynn, a prom-night beauty, got as far away as Toledo. Rick Brinklan came home in a coffin from Iraq. Lisa Han was bright and rebellious she vanished and apparently never looked back.īen Harrington became a singer-songwriter he overdosed. ![]() Young people leave, or settle into what they find, both in jobs and in relationships.ĭanny Eaton, a quiet kid who reads history, deployed three times with the 101st Airborne and came home with an acrylic right eye. Family farms have been bought up by agribusiness. ![]() New Canaan has been battered by factory closures, subprime mortgage evictions, and opioids. “Ohio” is set east of Columbus and south of Cleveland, in the town of New Canaan (amid a swathe of real-life towns with equally buoyant names, New Philadelphia and New Concord). They might be the epigraph for Stephen Markley’s powerful first novel “Ohio,” which covers the same Rust Bowl terrain and the similar hard-bitten ironies. “I went back to Ohio / but my city was gone.” A rock ‘n’ roll amazon sang those lines, and a right-wing radio talk show host made them his theme song. Editor’s Note: Stephen Markley will read and sign copies of his book “Ohio” on Wednesday, September 19, at 5 p.m., at Off-Square Books. ![]()
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