Ohio

  • Author: Stephen Markley
  • Narrator: Jayme Mattler
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 16:10:52
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Synopsis

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR

“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“A book that has stayed with me ever since I put it down.” —Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers

One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.

There’s Bill Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to post-BP New Orleans, and now back home with a mysterious package strapped to the undercarriage of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting her family and the mother of her best friend and first love, whose disappearance spurs the mystery at the heart of the novel; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried desperately to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the washed-up captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax.

Set over the course of a single evening, Ohio toggles between the perspectives of these unforgettable characters as they unearth dark secrets, revisit old regrets and uncover—and compound—bitter betrayals. Before the evening is through, these narratives converge masterfully to reveal a mystery so dark and shocking it will take your breath away.

Chapters

  • Ohio 001 Open

    Duration: 43s
  • Ohio 002 Dedication

    Duration: 13s
  • Ohio 003 Prelude

    Duration: 35min
  • Ohio 004 Bill A

    Duration: 01h06min
  • Ohio 005 Bill B

    Duration: 01h27min
  • Ohio 006 Bill C

    Duration: 01h16min
  • Ohio 007 Stacey A

    Duration: 01h22min
  • Ohio 008 Stacey B

    Duration: 01h13min
  • Ohio 009 Stacey C

    Duration: 01h11min
  • Ohio 010 Dan A

    Duration: 01h02min
  • Ohio 011 Dan B

    Duration: 01h10min
  • Ohio 012 Dan C

    Duration: 49min
  • Ohio 013 Dan D

    Duration: 51min
  • Ohio 014 Tina A

    Duration: 01h07min
  • Ohio 015 Tina B

    Duration: 56min
  • Ohio 016 Tina C

    Duration: 49min
  • Ohio 017 Coda

    Duration: 01h07min
  • Ohio 018 Credits

    Duration: 01min