"Behind the walls and under the floors lurk the dark secrets of the high-rise in Fort Fierce. The story starts with Thomas Franklin who returns from World War II, determined to build a real estate empire. His high-rise in Fort Fierce was a beacon of his ambition, but it also holds a family secret: a Cold War bunker omitted from the blueprints. Constructed amid the boiling tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the underground bunker harbours an arsenal of guns and the secrets of more than one Franklin. In this visceral, emotionally raw and completely absorbing collection, Carlucci takes his readers through the ravaged history of this high-rise of the North. Leading us into a dim, yet eerily familiar world, Carlucci immerses us into the violence that ravages the building's tenants as they slip into and out of each other's lives, the illness that radiates from the effects of too many floods and too much neglect, and the uneasy relationships that arise between indigenous and settler populations. Love and death, conflict and compromise, fear and determination thread the warp and weft of Carlucci's dark, yet irrepressible tapestry. We cannot look away."--

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