Reviews round-up
Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan
4 of 4 critics positive
5 reviews: 4 positives; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Positive
Read the review ↗Hopefully Tom Hanks will buy film rights to Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, an epic family saga set in small-town America
Positive
Read the review ↗“luminous and tender 20th-century saga of wounded souls and small-town secrets”
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan review – behind the American dream
Positive
Read the review ↗“tackles dark times with lightness and compassion”
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan: a family saga, ghost story and social history rolled into one
Positive
Read the review ↗“recalls classic storytelling of another era”
A Midcentury Melodrama of Love and War, Told With Old-School Flair (Published 2025)
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