Ashes of the Orchard

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Detroit burns. Detroit remembers. Detroit refuses to forget.

In 1950s Detroit, the city bulldozed Black Bottom and Paradise Valley-two thriving Black communities-under the banner of urban renewal. Homes vanished. Businesses disappeared. Families were scattered.

Seventy years later, the rubble is gone. But the people remember.

Ruth Obadiah, a quiet factory worker with a steel spine, spends her nights documenting the human cost of “progress.” What be...