Grand River and Joy: Sweetwater Fiction: Originals
Autor Susan Messeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2010
Halloween morning 1966, Harry Levine arrives at his wholesale shoe warehouse to find an ethnic slur soaped on the front window. As he scavenges around the sprawling warehouse basement, looking for the supplies he needs to clean the window, he makes more unsettling discoveries: a stash of Black Power literature; marijuana; a new phone line running off his own; and a makeshift living room, arranged by Alvin, the teenaged tenant who lives with his father, Curtis, above the warehouse. Accustomed to sloughing off fears about Detroit's troubled inner-city neighborhood, Harry dismisses the soaped window as a Halloween prank and gradually dismantles “Alvin's lounge” in a silent conversation with the teenaged tenant. Still, these events and discoveries draw him more deeply into the frustrations and fissures permeating his city in the months leading up to the Detroit riots.
Grand River and Joy, named after a landmark intersection in Detroit, follows Harry through the intersections of his life and the history of his city. It's a work of fiction set in a world that is anything but fictional, a novel about the intersections between races, classes and religions exploding in the long, hot summers of Detroit in the 1960s. Grand River and Joy is a powerful and moving exploration of one of the most difficult chapters of Michigan history.Susan Messer's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, and Colorado Review. She received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in prose, an Illinois Arts Council literary award for creative nonfiction, and a prize in the Jewish Cultural Writing Competition of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780472034291
ISBN-10: 0472034294
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria Sweetwater Fiction: Originals
ISBN-10: 0472034294
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria Sweetwater Fiction: Originals
Notă biografică
Susan Messer's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, and Colorado Review. She received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in prose, an Illinois Arts Council literary award for creative nonfiction, and a prize in the Jewish Cultural Writing Competition of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture. Visit Susan Messer's website.
Recenzii
"Grand River and Joy is a rare novel of insight and inspiration. It's impossible not to like a book this well-written and meaningful—not to mention as historically significant, humorous, and meditative."
"With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny and—painful though it is to acknowledge it—spot-on accurate."
"It's a beautiful story, a moving story, and a story that will bring tears and quiet joy as you relive those turbulent days of the 1960's at Grand River and Joy in Detroit."
"Messer's strength as a writer is to tackle the complications without reducing them to sound bites. Instead, she uses believable characters to approach impossible subjects such as power, prejudice, and . . . migration."
A Guardian Readers' Pick for Best Books About Detroit!
"With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny and—painful though it is to acknowledge it—spot-on accurate."
"It's a beautiful story, a moving story, and a story that will bring tears and quiet joy as you relive those turbulent days of the 1960's at Grand River and Joy in Detroit."
"Messer's strength as a writer is to tackle the complications without reducing them to sound bites. Instead, she uses believable characters to approach impossible subjects such as power, prejudice, and . . . migration."
Descriere
A novel that puts the reader right in the heart of the 1967 Detroit race riots