Growing Up on Grosse Ile: Island in the Detroit River

by Frances Trix

Growing up on Grosse Ile is the story of life on a border island between Michigan and Canada, downriver from Detroit. What was it like to be young in a place surrounded by water and Great Lakes freighters in mid-twentieth century America? We grew up outside, and the island shaped our youth: both its unique provincial qualities-we all missed the same word on the fourth grade spelling bee-and its ties to the mainland-with the many "bridge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950843165
• ISBN13: 9781950843169
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Parafine Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"