Scrapper

Scrapper

<b>For fans of <i>The Dog Stars</i> and <i>Station Eleven</i>, <i>Scrapper</i> traces one man’s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit.</b><br><br>"Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy’s <i>The Road</i> set in present-day Motor City... powerful."<br><b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br>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 he’s come to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy’s unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past and long-buried traumas.<br><br>The second novel from the acclaimed author of <i>In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods</i>, <i>Scrapper</i> is a devastating reimagining of one of America’s 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 we’ve committed to protect the people we love?