Great Escapes from Detroit
Joseph O'Malley, December 2019
In Great
Escapes from Detroit, Joseph O'Malley tells stories of families living
in Detroit. In an imperfect city that beckons and repels, these
characters probe the ever-shifting terrain of the human heart, where the
tenacious pull and push of love, trepidation, and occasional joy plays
out as they navigate the opposing impulses that exist in all families:
to embrace their circumstances, or to escape. Whether it's the father
who fears he may have spawned a monstrously violent child, the woman
overwhelmed by dealing with a crazy neighbor while caring for her ailing
father, the teenage boy who finds that asceticism won't shield him from
the horrors or the joys of life, or the happy woman who can't help her
severely depressed husband, these stories reveal the throbbing kernel of
hope that persists even in the most dire circumstances.
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