The Art Student's War

December 08, 2009 7:00 PM

Birmingham - Downtown - Borders
34300 Woodward
Birmingham, MI 48009

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.