A city the size of San Francisco and Manhattan could neatly fit into Detroit's vacant lots.
Trees and switchgrass and wild animals have come back to reclaim their right¬ful places. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. Once the vanguard of America's machine age-mass production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles-Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. 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." Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski" – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW Back 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 New York Times Bestseller A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness.
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