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005			20190729110353.0
008			160209s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2015050463
020			_a9781632863638 _q(hardback)
020			_a1632863634 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)918283771
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050	0	0	_aPS3608.E727 _bA84 2016
100	1		_aHebert, Christopher,
245	1	0	_aAngels of Detroit : _ba novel / _cChristopher Hebert.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBloomsbury USA, _c2016.
300			_a422 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_a"Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of abandoned buildings. In razor-sharp, beguiling prose, Angels of Detroit draws us into the lives of multiple characters struggling to define their futures in this desolate landscape: a scrappy group of activists trying to save the city with placards and protests; a curious child who knows the blighted city as her own personal playground; an elderly great-grandmother eking out a community garden in an oil-soaked patch of dirt; a carpenter with an explosive idea of how to give the city a new start; a confused idealist who has stumbled into debt to a human trafficker; a weary corporate executive who believes she is doing right by the city she remembers at its prime--each of their desires is distinct, and their visions for a better city are on a collision course. In this propulsive, masterfully plotted epic, an urban wasteland whose history is plagued with riots and unrest is reimagined as an ambiguous new frontier--a site of tenacity and possible hope. Driven by struggle and suspense, and shot through with a startling empathy, Christopher Hebert's magnificent second novel unspools an American story for our time"-- _cProvided by publisher.
651		0	_aDetroit (Mich.) _vFiction.
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