City in Amber

A compelling story of Lawrence, Massachusetts, a planned industrial city built around the garment industry. Moving from the city's construction before the American Civil War to the sporadic conflagrations that plagued it in the 1990?s, the writing is so fine that even the downright evil characters eke out a moment of sympathy from the reader'not to mention the laughter and sadness the other characters evoke. Just as the amber metaphor in the title indicates, the reader is constantly pleased and surprised to pick up certain nearly mystical threads from generation to generation: Ah, that's what happened to those solid gold cufflinks! Ah, that's where that poor man's tooth wound up! City in Amber offers amazing characters and plots, just as it offers an entirely pleasurable and leiAtkinson, Jay is the author of 'City in Amber', published 2007 under ISBN 9781931982962 and ISBN 1931982961.