Author: stephenmarkley

“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 … 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…