"People [...] grow up in a small town and get the same kind of cruel ideas fed to them their entire lives, and they wrap it up in their worldviews because that's the context they understand."
At first, In "Ohio", Stephen Markley appears as a perfect screwriter about all the fucking motherfukers around, and how to make it when you fail to do it. On and on from one page to any other, the idea is "How to fuck your neighbour", "To fuck or not to fuck", and finally "What the fuck ?"
But that's only the pinkish side of the novel.
Quite a good novel, if you consider that everything "made in USA" will overflood the European market 10 or 20 years after. To such a point that, in fact, if you are European, you'll feel reading your own kids story today.
A story nobody should be proud of : vodka, sex, and no futur, except religion as they all seam to be soaked in after aging.
Sad or just standard, life is what one makes it. And, right or wrong (if any), it might take time to make choices. Isn't it what life is all about ? Making choices, like any living thing on this planet. No sadness here. Just no "tooth fairy". That's just right.
And that's why "OHIO" should be a good book to read for anybody from 17 to 77 years young ! But you might find yourself releaved getting on other subjects than to fuck and to be fucked as a philosophy. Up to you.