Chevy in the Hole, Kelsey Ronan
Chevy in the Hole, Kelsey Ronan
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Chevy in the Hole
A Novel

Author: Kelsey Ronan

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

A gorgeous, unflinching love letter to Flint, Michigan, and the resilience of its people, Kelsey Ronan's Chevy in the Hole follows multiple generations of two families making their homes there, with a stunning contemporary love story at its center.

In the opening pages of Chevy in the Hole, August “Gus” Molloy has just overdosed in a bathroom stall of the Detroit farm-to-table restaurant where he works. Shortly after, he packs it in and returns home to his family in Flint. This latest slip and recommitment to sobriety doesn’t feel too terribly different from the others, until Gus meets Monae, an urban farmer trying to coax a tenuous rebirth from the city’s damaged land. Through her eyes, he sees what might be possible in a city everyone else seems to have forgotten or, worse, given up on. But as they begin dreaming up an oasis together, even the most essential resources can’t be counted on.

Woven throughout their story are the stories of their families—Gus’s white and Monae’s Black—members of which have had their own triumphs and devastating setbacks trying to survive and thrive in Flint. A novel about the things that change over time and the things that don’t, Chevy in the Hole reminds us again and again what people need from one another and from the city they call home.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

About Kelsey Ronan

Kelsey Ronan grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere. She lives in Detroit and teaches for InsideOut Literary Arts. Chevy in the Hole is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Claudia

This book was initially advertised as a romance and while there is a romance and it is central to the story, I think this is more of a general fiction story with a romance in it. Flint, Michigan is just as important to the story as the main two characters are and it is a doozy of a contender to comp......more

3. 5 stars, rounded up. Chevy in the Hole is Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel. I love strong working class fiction, and the title and book cover spoke to me. But while it shows a good deal of promise, it’s also a cautionary example of how, in trying to do too much, one can do too little. My thanks go to N......more

Goodreads review by Summer

Dubbed as a love letter to Flint, Michigan Chevy In The Hole centers around August Molley or Gus who just overdosed in the bathroom at a farm-to-table restaurant where he works in Detroit. Soon afterward he returns to his family home in Flint Michigan where he meets Monae. Gus’s whole life soon chang......more

Goodreads review by Tina

I just finished listening to CHEVY IN THE HOLE by Kelsey Ronan. It’s a debut novel about a couple, August and Monae, and their families all living in Flint, Michigan. . What I liked: - August and Monae are an interracial couple, August is white and Monae is Black - Janina Edwards is an excellent narrato......more