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Thank you very much, Sara.

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Thanks to the rest of
you for being here.

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I was thinking on
my way down here

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that I haven't been on
campus in like two months,

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and I'm so impressed that
this many people could find it

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in the summer.

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So thank you for being here.

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As Sara mentioned, I have a
new novel, Scrapper coming out

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in September.

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I'm going to read
from that tonight.

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I think this is my last reading
before the book comes out.

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It's my last chance for a
trial run before it's live.

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The book is set in Detroit.

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I grew up in Michigan.

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I lived in Michigan
my whole life

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until last year when
I moved to Arizona.

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It starts off in the
illegal metal scrapping

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that's happening sort of in
the 100,000 abandoned buildings

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in the center of Detroit.

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And it's-- the protagonist is
a man named Kelly who grew up

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in Michigan, has returned to the
state after 10 years of living

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in the south, and was unable
to find work and ends up

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in the city, scrapping metal.

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The sort of instigating
incident to the book

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is that in one of
the abandoned houses

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that he's taking metal out
of he finds a young boy who's

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been kidnapped and is held in
the basement of this house.

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I'm going to read a little
bit from earlier in the book,

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and then I'm going to
read the scene in which he

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finds the boy.