ISBN: 9781250803900
Editorial: Henry Holt and Co.
Autor: Ronan, Kelsey
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 304
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: About the AuthorKelsey Ronan grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere. She lives in Detroit and teaches for InsideOut Literary Arts. Chevy in the Hole is her first novel.A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFinalist for the 2022 Heartland Booksellers AwardA gorgeous, unflinching love letter to Flint, Michigan, and the resilience of its people, Kelsey Ronan's Chevy in the Hole follows multiple generations of two families making their homes there, with a stunning contemporary love story at its center.In the opening pages of Chevy in the Hole, August “Gus” Molloy has just overdosed in a bathroom stall of the Detroit farm-to-table restaurant where he works. Shortly after, he packs it in and returns home to his family in Flint. This latest slip and recommitment to sobriety doesn’t feel too terribly different from the others, until Gus meets Monae, an urban farmer trying to coax a tenuous rebirth from the city’s damaged land. Through her eyes, he sees what might be possible in a city everyone else seems to have forgotten or, worse, given up on. But as they begin dreaming up an oasis together, even the most essential resources can’t be counted on.Woven throughout their story are the stories of their families―Gus’s white and Monae’s Black―members of which have had their own triumphs and devastating setbacks trying to survive and thrive in Flint. A novel about the things that change over time and the things that don’t, Chevy in the Hole reminds us again and again what people need from one another and from the city they call home.ReviewAdvance Praise for CHEVY IN THE HOLE“There is a particular kind of melancholy endemic to cities in the industrial Midwest. Chevy in the Hole does a wonderful job of capturing this kind of melancholy... Ronan adeptly dramatizes one of the most dangerous monsters of addiction: self-loathing... [Gus is] thoughtful in every sense of the word ― he’s kind and he thinks too much, and Ronan has a gift for propulsive sentences that make even his deeply interior moments somehow suspenseful and endearing.”―Dean Bakopoulos, The New York Times Book Review“[Chevy in the Hole] does a great job at exploring Flint’s very real history of environmental racism... Ronan is a white woman and Monae and her family, who appear throughout the book, are Black... Sometimes non-POC get it completely wrong when trying to create art from the perspective of a culture outside their own... That couldn’t be further from the truth of what Ronan has done with Chevy in the Hole. Ronan has not only done her research but has crafted this love letter to Flint with compassion.”―Randiah Camille Green, Detroit Metro Times“[This] debut keeps the city and its history at the heart of the book.”―The Millions, a "Most Anticipated" Book for March 2022“As Flint native Ronan’s rich and unflinching saga sways through the twentieth and into the twenty- first century, it reveals a decaying city once at the heart of America’s industrial and cultural identity. The intimate histories in this stunning and masterful debut reveal universal truths of renewal and redemption at individual and societal levels.”―Booklist (starred review)“Ronan’s characters brim with resilience, and their survival reflects the highs and lows of the site referenced in the title, a Chevrolet factory left to ruin and later reclaimed as a park. Ronan ably humanizes a city known for the pity it’s elicited for many decades.”―Publishers Weekly“A smart Rust Belt love story informed by its location's complex history.”―Kirkus“A thought-provoking and emotional debut...Labeled as a love letter to Flint, Michigan, this novel portrays the city through the eyes of its residents, its fighters. Chevy in the Hole manages to personalize Flint not with pity but with hope. Ronan is a compelling writer – I highly recommend this complex and beautiful novel.”―Current Ma
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