Scrapper

For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven Scrapper traces one mans desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit. “Has the feel of Cormac McCarthys 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 hes come to steal: a kidnapped boy crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero Kelly secretly avenges the boys 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 Americas 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 weve committed to protect the people we love?