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050 10 PS3569.H3385|bM48 2022b 
082 00 813/.54|223/eng/20211126 
100 1  Shapiro, Barbara A.,|d1951-|eauthor. 
245 10 Metropolis :|ba novel /|cB.A. Shapiro. 
250    Large print edition. 
264  1 Waterville, Maine :|bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a 
       Cengage Company,|c2022. 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    579 pages (large print) ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
340    |nlarge print|2rdafs 
490 1  Thorndike Press large print basic 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Storage facilities|zMassachusetts|vFiction. 
650  0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction. 
650  0 Elevators|xAccidents|vFiction. 
650  0 Photographers|vFiction. 
650  0 Noncitizens|vFiction. 
650  0 Doctoral students|vFiction. 
650  0 Abused women|vFiction. 
650  0 Money laundering|vFiction. 
650  0 Large type books. 
650  7 large print books.|2aat|0(CStmoGRI)aat300206232 
650  7 Large type books.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00992678 
651  0 Cambridge (Mass.)|vFiction. 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
655  7 Psychological fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Thrillers (Fiction)|2lcgft 
830  0 Thorndike Press large print basic series. 
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