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A Brand New York Times Best-Seller “A guide saturated in equally fictional elegance and hard-gained world-weariness, Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski” –Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW In his damaged neighborhood, Pulitzer Prize–winning correspondent Charlie LeDuff queries through the wrecks for hints to its destiny, his family’s, and their own. Detroit is where his mother’s blossom store was firebombed in the pre-Halloween orgy of arson referred to as Devil’s Evening; where his sibling dropped himself for the west-side roads; where his sibling, who once offered subprime mortgages with ability and cotton, now operates in a factory washing Oriental-constructed screws to allow them to be renamed as “May Be Produced in Usa States.” Having brought us on the way up, Detroit now appears to be leading us on the way down. When the wealthiest town in The Usa, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. When the vanguard of America’s device age—mass manufacturing, blue collar work, and automobiles—Detroit is now America’s money for unemployment, illiteracy, drop-outs, and foreclosures.