A cinematic foray from the 'ruin porn' of Detroit to the warming of a young woman's love life in Hawaii.
Detroit has been in a economic death spiral for decades, overlooked and abandoned. Celeste loves her home city and is fiercely faithful to it. But with her job in jeopardy, neighborhoods abandoned around her and the rise of drug related crimes, she finally contemplates moving. She falls in love with a wounded Iraq War veteran fighting his hidden addictions. When she finds the courage to follow her dreams to Hawaii, the possibility of healing comes with the arrival of the vet’s recently discovered daughter.
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A cinematic foray from the 'ruin porn' of Detroit to the warming of a young woman's love life in Hawaii.
Detroit has been in a economic death spiral for decades, overlooked and abandoned. Celeste loves her home city and is fiercely faithful to it. But with her job in jeopardy, neighborhoods abandoned around her and the rise of drug related crimes, she finally contemplates moving. She falls in love with a wounded Iraq War veteran fighting his hidden addictions. When she finds the courage to follow her dreams to Hawaii, the possibility of healing comes with the arrival of the vet’s recently discovered daughter.
I am grateful for your interest. I wrote this book as a love letter to the resilience of Detroit, but the story came to me in an ice cream store on Maui 12 years ago. I saw a little girl sitting on a chair outside, in my imagination, with a black trash bag that held all her belongings. I hope you enjoy this novel.