Description
For fans of "The Dog Stars" and "Station Eleven," "Scrapper" traces one man s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit. "Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy s "The Road" set in present-day Motor City... powerful." "Publishers Weekly" Detroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of the city known as the zone, an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he s come to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy s unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past and long-buried traumas. The second novel from the acclaimed author of "In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods," "Scrapper" is a devastating reimagining of one of America s greatest cities, its beautiful architecture, its lost houses, shuttered factories, boxing gyms, and storefront churches. With precise, powerful prose, it asks: What do we owe for our crimes, even those we ve committed to protect the people we love?"
