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Grand River and Joy

Susan Messer

A novel that puts the reader right in the heart of the 1967 Detroit race riots

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Praise for the Book

"It's a beautiful story, a moving story, and a story that will bring tears and quiet joy as you relive those turbulent days of the 1960's at Grand River and Joy in Detroit."
—Russ Gibb

"With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny and—painful though it is to acknowledge it—spot-on accurate."
—Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After and Half a Heart

"Grand River and Joy is a rare novel of insight and inspiration. It's impossible not to like a book this well-written and meaningful—not to mention as historically significant, humorous, and meditative."
—Laura Kasischke author of The Life Before Her Eyes and Be Mine