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Groundskeeping
by Lee Cole
Owen has returned from a few aimlesss years to his native Kentucky, where he stays with his grandfather and uncle. He works as a groundskeeper on a college campus and takes writing courses. He enters into a romantic relationship with a visiting writer of Muslim Bosnian heritage. This is in part a book about trying to navigate his family and region's political and cultural sensibilities with his own more liberal ones. It's also about the nature and morality of writing autobiographical fiction. I grew frustrated with Owen, who saw the other people around him less as individuals and more as fodder for his writing.