In this riveting and darkly funny memoir about the decline of her beer-making family, author Frances Stroh chronicles her teenage journey through the ruins of Detroit and one of its opulent suburbs—as well as the addictions at the heart of her family's unraveling—with brutal honesty and unsettling detail. From an acid trip inside the abandoned Uniroyal Tire Plant to a cocaine-inspired meditation class with Annie Lennox, this young artist struggles to forge her path to adulthood—and away from the known and visible—in the midst of Detroit's and her family's demise.

Frances Stroh is currently writing a memoir, Fire-Brewed, about her family, who made beer in Detroit for 150 years and became the third-largest brewer in the United States before the brewery's—and her family's—fortunes turned. In evoking the history of the Stroh Brewery and Detroit, Frances reveals the decline of the society that created the American way of life. Fire-Brewed is at once a recollection of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist who finds her way out of the ruins. Frances's short fiction has appeared in Rosebud.

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