Decent into Hell

by Claudia Newcombe

NOVEL OF THE WEEK

The story of a Kentucky family compelled to leave their farm to be consumed in the factories of Detroit, in the great wave of migration that saw hundreds of thousands sucked from the rural south to fill labour shortages in the industrial north. It finds new meaning in our era of forced mass migration.

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