{"product_id":"the-future-9781771965606","title":"The Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own kingdom in the trees.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents, in whose stubborn generosity and carefully tended gardens she finds hope. When a strange intuition sends her into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city's orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can't imagine the strength she will find.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in an alternate history in which the French never surrendered the city of Detroit, where children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves, where rivers poison and heal and young and old alike protect with their lives the people and places they love, Catherine Leroux's \u003ci\u003eThe Future\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771965606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Catherine LeRoux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43040323666101,"sku":"9781771965606","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_73e98a41-518e-4f1f-92f9-f85e394cb6c1.jpg?v=1689089498","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-future-9781771965606","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}