Detroit Fairy Tales
Preorder – this book will ship on April 1, 2021.
Detroit Fairy Tales is a work of autobiographical fiction—or “speculative memoir”—that explores the lives of one struggling family with deep roots in their one-of-a-kind city. In the spirit of Bastard out of Carolina and The Glass Castle, Detroit Fairy Tales is both a coming-of-age story and an exploration of how trauma can reverberate through four generations. Hopeful, yet raw and unflinching, these thirty-six vignettes tie together like a work of jazz to create a single, unique work. Along the way, Detroit Fairy Tales challenges our assumptions while it peels back the layers of love, trauma, hope, and resignation that are at the root of this surprising—yet, not unusual—American family.
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Preorder — this book will ship on April 1st, 2021.
“Detroit Fairy Tales is a stunner of a book … Elisa Sinnett has summoned a glittering darkness, bleak, beautiful, mesmerizing and utterly unforgettable.”
— Junot Díaz, pulitzer prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Elisa and her five sisters are born and raised in the wealthy University District of Detroit, where she longs to not stick out as a poor white kid. She is born with a rare medical condition: a hole in her chest. This is but the first in a lifetime of struggles, as Elisa and her sisters must navigate a family clouded by life-defining tragedies which echo though the generations. The six girls make their own ways through a labyrinth of race, class, gender, mental illness, and sexual and domestic violence, each finding their escape—some with more success than others. Like everyone, Elisa does what she can, making the best choices she can. In the end, she must find her own peace and end the cycle of family secrets.
Detroit Fairy Tales is a breathtaking story—never sensational, but always honest and unexpected.
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