![]() ![]() ![]() Other reviewers will undoubtedly call it the Hillbilly Elegy novel. Stephen Markley’s debut novel, Ohio, does not seek to answer the question of Trump’s rise-even if others will read reasons into it. The best storytellers resist both of these impulses and write the superstructures into the scene without leaving individuals bereft of the drama of their own lives. ![]() They just need to shape up, go back to church and pull themselves out of ruin. On the other side of the argument, these corporate structures are totally irrelevant to the individual moral and political choices that have led the individual into despair. These are absolutely determining factors that deprive flyover citizens of agency we ought to excuse the wrongs of rural America in light of these. Depending on whose account you read, Midwestern voters (this, again, is all they are worth) are enslaved or indifferent to the structures they live and work in: a never-ending war(s) on terror, the 2008 financial crisis, the proliferation of opioids, an Affordable Care Act that still allows thousands to go broke from health care costs. ![]()
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