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Walking Through Walls chronicles the harrowing high school urban escapades of Archimedes T'Leal Diggs. Set in Detroit's inner city during the socially turbulent years of 1963 to 1967, with the backdrop of an escalating war and race riots exploding across the nation, a backyard reenactment of the Eichmann execution gone awry induces the agnostic twelve-year old to pledge his life to God. Searching for a loophole, it strikes the streetwise con artist that a religious education just might provide the escape from the ghetto violence of the lower eastside. Had he realized the daily torture tests involved, he certainly would have decided to hang.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Walking Through Walls chronicles the harrowing high school urban escapades of Archimedes T'Leal Diggs. Set in Detroit's inner city during the socially turbulent years of 1963 to 1967, with the backdrop of an escalating war and race riots exploding across the nation, a backyard reenactment of the Eichmann execution gone awry induces the agnostic twelve-year old to pledge his life to God. Searching for a loophole, it strikes the streetwise con artist that a religious education just might provide the escape from the ghetto violence of the lower eastside. Had he realized the daily torture tests involved, he certainly would have decided to hang.
Autorenporträt
Michael Brochert was born on the lower east side of Detroit, Michigan. His writing reflects the challenges of inner-city living, and the sense of humor he used to cope with it. He lives in Northern Michigan with his wife. Walking Through Walls is his second novel.