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.
