Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Detroit is where his mother’s flower shop was firebombed in the pre-Halloween orgy of arson known as Devil’s Night where his sister lost herself to the west side streets where his brother, who once sold subprime mortgages with skill and silk, now works in a factory cleaning Chinese-manufactured screws so they can be repackaged as “May Be Made in United States.” Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski” – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEWīack in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family’s, and his own. “A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |