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7629828Grand Rapidshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/grand-rapids-9781635902587/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7254376/image.jpg?v=638876473251830000250347MXNMIT PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A new novel from the celebrated author of <em>Surveys</em>, set in the Michigan suburbs of the early 2000s.</strong></p><p>Installed alongside the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, Alexander Calders public sculpture <em>La Grande Vitesse</em> has come to symbolize the city. Tess moves there from Ypsilanti, Michigan in 2001the same year that her mother dies, when everything begins to move, for her, in slow motion. Thrust into adolescence nearly rudderless, fifteen-year-old Tess is intoxicated, angsty, and sexually awake. A decade later, inspired by diary entries and TV reruns, she remembers this summer in the suburbs as the one that redefined her. Its echoes of death are frozen in time like the waves represented in the Calder sculpture or the concrete steps leading down to the churning river. She comes to see Grand Rapids as a collection of architecture and emblems, another home to which she cannot return.</p>...7238517Grand Rapids250347https://www.gandhi.com.mx/grand-rapids-9781635902587/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7254376/image.jpg?v=638876473251830000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook20259781635902587_W3siaWQiOiI1ZWIxOTFjZi0xMDBkLTRiOGMtOWE3Yi0zYjY2YjQ0NTY0NzkiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM0NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjk3LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDlUMDY6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjp0cnVlfV0=9781635902587_<p><strong>A new novel from the celebrated author of <em>Surveys</em>, set in the Michigan suburbs of the early 2000s.</strong></p><p>Installed alongside the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, Alexander Calders public sculpture <em>La Grande Vitesse</em> has come to symbolize the city. Tess moves there from Ypsilanti, Michigan in 2001the same year that her mother dies, when everything begins to move, for her, in slow motion. Thrust into adolescence nearly rudderless, fifteen-year-old Tess is intoxicated, angsty, and sexually awake. A decade later, inspired by diary entries and TV reruns, she remembers this summer in the suburbs as the one that redefined her. Its echoes of death are frozen in time like the waves represented in the Calder sculpture or the concrete steps leading down to the churning river. She comes to see Grand Rapids as a collection of architecture and emblems, another home to which she cannot return.</p>...9781635902587_MIT Presspreventa9781635902587_9781635902587Natasha StaggInglésMéxico2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:002025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00MIT Press