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Book

Standpipe : delivering water in Flint

Call Number

  • 921 H262 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, 2021.

Physical Description

169 pages ; 19 cm

Summary

"A brief, elegant memoir of the author's work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the struggles of a city in crisis against the author's personal journey as his mother declines into dementia and eventual death. Written with a poet's eye for detail and quiet metaphor, Standpipe is an intimate look at one man's engagement with both civic and familial trauma." (Description from back cover.)

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