The Art Student's War

December 07, 2009 7:00 PM

Ann Arbor-Downtown - Borders
612 E. Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

The story opens on a sunny spring day as a pretty woman, in a crowded wartime city, a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, climbs aboard a streetcar. She is heading home, where another war-a domestic war-is about to erupt. Rich, humorous, and grippingly written, The Art Student's War is Leithauser's finest novel to datea view both global and intimate in its portrayal of one family caught up in the personal and national drama of the Second World War.