Groundskeeping Av Lee Cole

<p><b>''Beautifully textured ... Anne Tyler by way of Sally Rooney.'' </b><i>New York Times</i><br><b>''A coming-of-age story inextricably bound with a love story.'' </b>MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD<br><b>''Smart, funny, exhilarating.'' </b>LILY KING<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Exploring the boundaries between life and art, and how our upbringings affect the people we can become, <i>Groundskeeping </i>