Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan (signed)
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A 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.
“Chevy in the Hole is not only about falling in love in a city in crisis, but a love story for the city itself—its haunted past, its yet-to-be-written future, and, most of all, its people. Written with uncommon depth, humor, and generosity of spirit, this is just an extraordinarily good novel. I missed it when it was over.”
—Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Kelsey 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.
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