Book description
From a bold new novelist comes a complex tale of friendship and brutality. Set in Michigan s Upper Peninsula, U.P. is the story of four teens immersed in an ugly world, one whose threat of violence is always simmering beneath the surface. R.A. Riekki s distinctive characters and their poignantā¦
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1 author picked U.P. as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is the story of four teenagers desperate to escape the mining towns of Ishpeming and Negaunee but doomed to immersion in the violence simmering just beneath the surface.
Riekki did a good job of instilling a sense of impending doom from the opening pages, and I couldnāt put it down. It showed me a side of the UP I didnāt know existed, one beyond the beauty of the peninsula, shining a light on the dirty underbelly of miningāwhat it offers and what it leaves behindāthe cavingsāunderground passages left by the mining company. Riekkiās description of the bottomless pitā¦
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