{"product_id":"9781616957650","title":"Scrapper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Dog Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScrapper\u003c\/i\u003e traces one man’s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e set in present-day Motor City... powerful.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of the city known as “the zone,” an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he’s come to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy’s unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past and long-buried traumas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eIn the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScrapper\u003c\/i\u003e is a devastating reimagining of one of America’s greatest cities, its beautiful architecture, its lost houses, shuttered factories, boxing gyms, and storefront churches. With precise, powerful prose, it asks: What do we owe for our crimes, even those we’ve committed to protect the people we love?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057654382832,"sku":"9781616957650","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616957650_p0.jpg?v=1763853494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616957650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}