• Scrapper

  • A Novel
  • By: Matt Bell
  • Narrated by: David Chandler
  • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Scrapper

By: Matt Bell
Narrated by: David Chandler
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Publisher's Summary

For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven, Scrapper uses the real-life dystopia of a devastated Detroit as a backdrop for one man's desperate quest for justice and redemptive grace.

In the wake of tragedy, ex-boxer Kelly returns to Detroit after years in the South. Unable to find work, he scavenges for scrap metal in the hundred thousand abandoned buildings at the heart of the city, an area he calls "the zone", where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he's come to steal: a kidnapped boy handcuffed to a bed, crying out for rescue. After being celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly decides to avenge the boy's unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past, unearthing long-buried cycles of trauma and cruelty, memories made dangerous again.

©2015 Matt Bell (P)2015 Recorded Books

Critic Reviews

"Somber, incantatory sentences to hold you within [Bell's] dreamlike creation.... This unique book leaves you with the haunting lesson that even if you renounce and cast away your loved ones, you can never disown the memory of your deeds." ( The Wall Street Journal)
"A gripping, grisly tale of a husband's descent into and ultimate emergence from some kind of personal hell." ( The New York Times)
"Bell's novel isn't just a joy to read, it's also one of the smartest meditations on the subjects of love, family and marriage in recent years." ( NPR)

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