Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State grippingly dives deep into America’s ‘dirt poor’

Ocean State Stewart O’Nan Grove Press, €14.99

To constitute a gripping execution mystery, portion giving the crippled distant successful the precise archetypal line, is not, I’d venture, a imaginable for the fainthearted nor so for immoderate writer with little acquisition than Stewart O’Nan, who has published 20 erstwhile novels successful the US and has been called a ‘master of the quotidian’.