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The green ghetto / Vern Smith.

by Smith, Vern, 1965-

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RunAmok Books, 2019.

United States. Drug Enforcement Administration -- Fiction.

Marijuana -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Detroit (Mich) -- Fiction.

9781732709706 (trade pbk)

320 p. ; 20 cm.

"Arthur Ellis Award finalist"--Cover.

"Mitchell Hosowich is pleased as a puppy with two tails that the great American rust-out has rendered parts of Detroit rural again, wild. For him, the “green ghetto,” as the bureaucrats have come to call it, is a safe place to grow some fairly decent Detroit dope. But when two DEA agents start sniffing around his spread, only to wind up dead, Mitchell finds himself with a lot of explaining to do. Left with two stiffs, a dead dog, a shot cow, and fifty-nine missing marijuana plants, Mitchell decides not to wait around for the law to come down on him. Instead, he goes after his stolen pot, a chase that becomes a tense, and at times hilarious, cross-border road trip to nearby rural Canada. Set in a hyper post-9/11 culture, The Green Ghetto explores the universal theme of being compromised. But mostly, it is the story of how America got here from there in the war on drugs, terror, and words."--Publisher.

Adventure fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Literary fiction.

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