Book: Metropolis
Author: BA Shapiro
Pages: 384
This was my 138th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Six people, six secrets, six different backgrounds. They would never have met if not for their connection to the Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, MA. When someone falls down an elecator shaft at the facility, each of the six becomes caught up in an intensifying chain of events. We meet Serge, an unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his storage unit; Marta, an undocumented immigrant finishing her dissertation and hiding from ICE; Liddy, an abused wife and mother who recreaters her children's bedroom in her unit; Jason, a former corporate lawyer now practi ing in the facility; Rose, the office manager, who takes illegal kickbacks to let renters live in the building; and Zach, an ex-drug dealer and now the building's owner, who scans Serge's photos as he searches for cluesto the accident. But was it an accident? A murder attempt" Suicide? As her characters dip in and out of one another's lives trying to find answers and battling societal forces beyond their control, this book questions the myth of the American dream and builds tensions to an exhilarating climax.
This was a good book. I loved Shapiro's other book - The Art Forger - so I was anxious to try this one. It is well written, and I liked all the characters are you supposed to like. Especially the lawyer. It moves at a good pace, and there is a satisfying ending.
Stars: 4
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