There Are Flowers in Ohio
By Rumaan Alam
2022
First Published
3.03
Average Rating
66
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Alice Comstock has always been a dutiful wife and an attentive mother, a perfectionist presiding over a flawless home. She’s reliably been her family’s center, the caretaker and problem-solver, until an illness requires her children to assume responsibility for their mother. For Adam, Alice’s youngest, a return home to California sparks a memory of his younger self. Alternating between the present and flashbacks to Adam’s college years, There Are Flowers in Ohio explores how the paths not taken shape all of our lives.
Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Author
Rumaan Alam
Author · 8 books
I'm the author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and Leave the World Behind. My short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Meridian, and elsewhere. I've also written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. I studied writing at Oberlin College. Now I live in New York with my husband and two kids.
