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Walking Through Walls

by Michael J. Brochert

A wager with faith amid Detroit’s unrest

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A wager with faith amid Detroit’s unrest

Set in Detroit from 1963 to 1967, the novel places Archimedes T’Leal Diggs’s coming-of-age story against a period of national racial turmoil and escalating war. After a backyard reenactment of an execution goes awry, the twelve-year-old agnostic pledges his life to God. His decision is bound up with a practical hope: that religious education might offer a way out of violence in the lower eastside. The premise brings together questions of belief, survival, and escape, with Archimedes’s streetwise resourcefulness complicating the meaning of his pledge.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in coming-of-age fiction set in 1960s Detroit.
  • Readers drawn to stories exploring faith alongside the search for safety and escape.
  • Readers interested in fiction shaped by racial unrest and urban violence.

Themes

Faith and agnosticismComing of ageSurvival and escapeRacial unrestReligious education

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Book overview

Walking Through Walls chronicles the harrowing high school urban escapades of Archimedes T'Leal Diggs. Set in Detroit's inner city during the socially turbulent years of 1963 to 1967, with the backdrop of an escalating war and race riots exploding across the nation, a backyard reenactment of the Eichmann execution gone awry induces the agnostic twelve-year old to pledge his life to God. Searching for a loophole, it strikes the streetwise con artist that a religious education just might provide the escape from the ghetto violence of the lower eastside.

Had he realized the daily torture tests involved, he certainly would have decided to hang.

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