American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbel Encyclopedia of Detroit The photographs chronologically follow the

The photographs chronologically follow the evolution of the Purples from their days as a juvenile street gang through their rise to power and eventual self-destruction

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American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbel Encyclopedia of Detroit The photographs chronologically follow theTrumbull Ave: Poems by Michael Lauchlan Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in FictionFinalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionThese short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.National Book Award citationAmerican Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters