Martha D. reviewed on 8/20/2009 + 36 more book reviews

My family is from Michigan, although I was raised in the American South after my parents divorced. My dad worked for Ford for 35 years, an incredible fact in itself given the present state of the American auto industry. From this book, I learned a great deal about the Detroit that came before the riots in 1969, and was reminded of the posh suburbia I lived in as a small child. Like the narrator, I left that suburbia behind and moved far away, and I became a much different person than the person I would have become had I continued living in the 'burbs of Detroit and going to a nice private school. Moving from public school to public school once I left Michigan, I learned quickly to adapt my behavior just as the narrator learned to do the same as life went on.

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