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A novel that puts the reader right in the heart of the 1967 Detroit race riots | "With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny, and—-painful though it is to acknowledge it—-spot-on accurate." —-Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After and Half a Heart " Grand River and Joy is a rare novel of insight and inspiration. It's impossible not to like a book this well-written and meaningful—-not to mention as historically significant, humorous, and meditative." —-Laura Kasischke, author of The Life Before Her Eyes and Be Mine Halloween morning 1966, Harry Levine arrives at his wholesale shoe warehouse to find an ethnic slur soaped on the front window. As he scavenges around the sprawling warehouse basement, looking for the supplies he needs to clean the window, he makes more unsettling discoveries: a stash of Black Power literature; marijuana; a new phone line running off his own; and a makeshift living room, arranged by Alvin, the teenaged tenant who lives with his father, Curtis, above the warehou

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Author

Susan Messer

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612422799

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.68 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14