Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel

By: Werbe, Peter

Book Overview

The temperature is scorching in Detroit during the summer of 1967 and so is everything happening in this fictionalized memoir by a staff member of the long-running Fifth Estate magazine. The characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, fighting fascists, rock and roll at the Grande Ballroom, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that provide "a people's history and radical folklore of Detroit." The setting is seven weeks in a critical year that demands ethical choices by all involved, ones which mirror today's crises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948501112
• ISBN13: 9781948501118
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Black & Red - Detroit
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"