“A powerfully narrated testimony to the American spirit and its challenges.”
      —California Bookwatch

“Martin’s narration is exactly right, reflecting all of LeDuff’s sincerity, outrage, and despair. . . . This masterly snapshot of a city in ruins translates superbly to the spoken word.”
      —Library Journal [starred review]

“Eric Martin hits all the right notes. . . . The author’s edgy tone is tough and uncompromising, befitting the harsh realities facing those who remain in the troubled city. Martin’s narration mirrors LeDuff’s writing as he voices the poverty, corruption, and crime of the city as well as the brash and irreverent personality of the author himself.”
      —AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner]

“Martin’s reading is honest and forthright.”
      —Booklist

“Full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness. . . . Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski.”
      —Kirkus [HC starred review]

“LeDuff explores it all with literary grace and justified indignation about what’s befallen a place he loves.”
      —Minneapolis Star Tribune

CHARLIE LEDUFF was a staff writer at The New York Times, a reporter at The Detroit News, and is now a television journalist for Detroit’s FOX2 News. He contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series and has received a Meyer Berger Award for distinguished writing about New York City. He is the author of US Guys and Work and Other Sins.