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Metropolis : a Novel by Barbara A. Shapiro is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"But was it really an accident? Was it suicide? A murder? Six mysterious characters, who rent units in, or are connected to, the self-storage facility, must now reevaluate their lives. We meet Serge, an unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his unit, which overflows with thousands of undeveloped pictures; Zach, the building's owner, who develops Serge's photos as he searches for clues to the accident; Marta, an undocumented immigrant who is finishing her dissertation and hiding from ICE; Liddy, an abused wife and mother, who recreates her children's bedroom in her unit; Jason, who has left his corporate firm and now practices law from his storage unit; and Rose, the office manager, who takes kickbacks to let renters live in the building and has her own complicated family history. The characters have a variety of backgrounds: they are different races; they practice different religions; they're young and they're not so young; they are rich, poor, and somewhere in the middle. As they dip in and out of one another's lives, fight circumstances that are within and also beyond their control, and try to discover the details of the accident, Shapiro both dismantles the myt

Who reads Metropolis : a Novel?

Author

Barbara A. Shapiro

Publisher

Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9798885780896

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (480 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14