Kat's Pick Book Club
Fri, Oct 03
|Sanford
For this month’s Book Club, Kat will be exploring Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, a captivating tale that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Sanford, 105 Carbonton Rd, Sanford, NC 27330, USA
About
About the Book:
One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.
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…