Lee Cole wrote Grounds-keeping, a novel about a young man named Owen. Owen moves from Colorado where he was unable to keep a job and was homeless for a time to Kansas. He now lives with his grandfather and Trump supporting uncle. The year is 2016. Owen has experience as an arborist and he gets a job at the University campus as a tree trimmer. Now only does he get paid he also gets to take one college course per semester. Owen would like to finish his degree and become a writer. At the school he meets Alma who is very different from him. She graduated from a prestigious University, grew up in New York, and has liberal parents. The novel is about the struggle these two people have to understand each other and fully appreciate their point of view. I thought the character development was great.
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