A review by staggandie
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole

I read this for my book club. It had been on a few of our lists. I’m not sure I would have finished it if not for book club. The writing is engaging enough that I was able to read stay into it, but not a lot happens. This is a bit of a coming of age story of a man who is nearly 30. As a woman who has long had her shit together (thanks to enormous privilege, no doubt), I did not relate to our protagonist. I do think it’s incredible he forged a new path away from his earlier difficulties, but that isn’t the story or focus at all (and his gal certainly doesn’t see it that way—he has to comfort *her* about his difficult past).

Everything is copy, but also he’s a baby man who took advantage of private moments.