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Average rating4.5
When his father disappears along with several other men from their blue-collar Detroit neighborhood, sixteen-year-old Michael Smolij witnesses the effects of large-scale abandonment on the community's wives and mothers.
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This book has more going for it than a typical coming-of-age novel–stronger characters, bigger themes, an intriguing setup. Plus, the self-contained chapter structure–almost as if they were separate short stories–felt satisfying.