Detroit: An American Autopsy

“Pultizer Prize-winning journalist LeDuff delivers an edgy portrait of the decline, destruction, and possible redemption of his hometown…LeDuff writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself—and breaking his heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness…Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski.” —Kirkus Reviews

“You wouldn’t think a book about the stinking decay of the American dream could be this engaging, this irreverent, this laugh-at-loud funny. But not everyone can write like Charlie LeDuff. I’m tempted to say he’s the writer for our desperate times the way Steinbeck and Orwell were for other people’s desperate times, except he’s such an original he’s like no one but himself.” —Alexandra Fuller, author of Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

“Eric Martin hits all the right notes in his narration of journalist Charlie LeDuff’s chronicle of the problems that plague his hometown, the once flourishing and now foundering Detroit. The author’s edgy tone is tough and uncompromising, befitting the harsh realities facing those who remain in the troubled city. Martin’s narration mirrors LeDuff’s writing as he voices the poverty, corruption, and crime of the city as well as the brash and irreverent personality of the author himself. Both author and narrator are by turns incredulous, despairing, and hopeful, though, as LeDuff concedes, hope can be hard to come by nowadays in Detroit. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile