Singing the City The Bonds of Home in an Industrial Landscape

Abstract

Laurie Graham writes about Pittsburgh but Singing the City looks beyond her selected city at a way of life that is largely disappearing in America. She examines the losses suffered by working- and middle-class communities as industries close up or leave the country. Her publisher comments, “She is convinced that when we lose our industrial places we lose more than we may be aware of, and that the loss is to more than those most immediately involved. And she grieves that we let our industrial places go with such equanimity.”