📜 Historical Fiction Book Club – Buckeye
Schedule
Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
605 Sumner Avenue, Humboldt, IA, United States, Iowa 50548 | Humboldt, IA
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📜 Historical Fiction Book Club – BuckeyeDate: Wednesday, May 27th
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Night Owl Books
Join us for May’s Historical Fiction Book Club as we explore Buckeye by Patrick Ryan 📜
If you love rich storytelling, compelling characters, and stories rooted in history, this one’s for you.
✨ About the Book:
In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.
Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.
Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.
We recommend finishing the book before attending as spoilers will be discussed—but feel free to join us either way!
Drinks and snacks available for purchase 🍻📚
Come connect, discuss, and unwind with us!
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