An Imprecise Perdition
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ISBN13: 9798645107420
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2020
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2020
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In his early 20s, Richard's older brother John was struck down by a speeding car, snuffing out a life on its way to either being good or bad or probably neither. The police never figured out who was driving that late model 60s Chevy ripping around the corner. The neighborhood people blamed everyone they didn't like and sought to square that emptiness with blood. The truth was probably closer to some speeder cutting through the block below Mack on the way to some other place, forcing himself into the air of that moment, when a man was crossing the street and, while hunched over in the middle of Kercheval retrieving the newspaper that he had tucked loosely under his arm, but fallen from that half-grip, where he had swooped to retrieve it in one motion, and was struck. It's possible that the driver thought he hit a dog.
So begins An Imprecise Perdition, introducing Francis Charles Munro of Detroit and the family stories, told and untold, that shape his identity. As a consultant with a life on the road, the systems he develops as a boy to keep himself safe and in-control in a tough neighborhood become the same worn scaffolding that enables him to move quietly through the world as an adult. Francis, the charming outsider forever looking in, remembers what didn't happen, and conjures projects for his clients while seeking meaning among the shards of their businesses.
Born and raised in Detroit, the city plays constant witness, adversary, and centering philosophical force for Francis throughout this kaleidoscopically shifting and hypnotic story.
Born and raised in Detroit, the city plays constant witness, adversary, and centering philosophical force for Francis throughout this kaleidoscopically shifting and hypnotic story.
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