Kelsey Ronan's gorgeous, harrowing debut novel follows multiple generations of two families in Flint, Michigan, through the city's notorious growth and decline, with a stunning contemporary love story at its center. When we meet August "Gus" Molloy on the opening pages of Chevy in the Hole, he's just coming to on the bathroom floor of the Detroit restaurant where he buses after being revived with Narcan. Shortly after, he packs it in and returns to his hometown of Flint for another shot at sobriety. There he meets and falls quickly in love with Monae Livingston, an urban farmer trying to coax a tenuous rebirth from the damaged land. As Gus and Monae begin dreaming up an urban oasis together in Flint, the city's water supply is being quietly poisoned. Woven throughout their story are the stories of Gus and Monae's families, members of which have had their own triumphs and devastating setbacks trying to survive and thrive in their troubled city. In 1937, Gus's great-grandmother runs
