![]() ![]() LeDuff moves back to Detroit after 20 years away, and he’s shocked by what he finds. It is perhaps all very superficial, and to be sure, I am a very safe distance away from there now, but even from here, I am watching. ![]() By blood and history, I have an interest in the city’s present and its future. It was an influence on and a backdrop to my life. As a teenager, I went downtown to see concerts or go to the Detroit Auto Show. Growing up, we often went into the city to visit grandparents and aunts and uncles. We moved away when I was nine, and I grew up in the northwestern suburbs, but my dad taught in the Detroit Public School system and continued to commute back and forth to the city every day for 30 years. ![]() ![]() But the fact is I was born there, and I have clear memories of my early childhood there. I have never really considered myself to be from there, and I have never felt an urge to go back. I don’t know why I’ve taken such an interest in Detroit in recent years. Now I’ve read it and I am both depressed by Detroit and amazed at the people who continue to live there, which includes most of my family. I have been interested in the state of Detroit and where it’s going, so I made a note to read the book. I think I first heard of Detroit: An American Autopsy when I saw a review of it on National Public Radio. I cannot remember reading a book faster than I read this one––286 pages in two-and-a-half days. ![]()
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