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Author Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951- author.

Title Metropolis : a novel / B.A. Shapiro.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LP SHAP    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP SHAPIRO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Large Print Materials  LP FIC SHAPIRO, B    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Large Print Materials  LP M SHAPIRO    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 579 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print rdafs
Series Thorndike Press large print basic
Thorndike Press large print basic series.
Summary "But was it really an accident? Was it suicide? A murder? Six mysterious characters, who rent units in, or are connected to, the self-storage facility, must now reevaluate their lives. We meet Serge, an unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his unit, which overflows with thousands of undeveloped pictures; Zach, the building's owner, who develops Serge's photos as he searches for clues to the accident; Marta, an undocumented immigrant who is finishing her dissertation and hiding from ICE; Liddy, an abused wife and mother, who recreates her children's bedroom in her unit; Jason, who has left his corporate firm and now practices law from his storage unit; and Rose, the office manager, who takes kickbacks to let renters live in the building and has her own complicated family history. The characters have a variety of backgrounds: they are different races; they practice different religions; they're young and they're not so young; they are rich, poor, and somewhere in the middle. As they dip in and out of one another's lives, fight circumstances that are within and also beyond their control, and try to discover the details of the accident, Shapiro both dismantles the myth of the American dream and builds tension to an exciting climax. For readers of Janelle Brown, Lucy Foley, Megan Abbott, and Laura Lippman, Metropolis is an original, spellbinding, and moving story of what we hang on to, what we might need to let go, and how unexpected events can lead us to discover our truest selves"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Storage facilities -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Elevators -- Accidents -- Fiction.
Photographers -- Fiction.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Doctoral students -- Fiction.
Abused women -- Fiction.
Money laundering -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Fiction.
large print books. (CStmoGRI)aat300206232
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Genre/Form Novels.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
ISBN 9798885780896 (large print) (hardcover)
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