The Metal Shredders
By Nancy Zafris
(Blue Hen Trade, Paperback, 9780425190807, 320pp.)
Publication Date: August 5, 2003
Categories: General
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John Bonner is trying hard to cope with his new role as exploiter of a motley crew of low-paid workers at his prosperous family business. John Bonner & Son Metal Shredders is where cars go to die-mashed into scrap by a mouthful of high-speed 255-pound magnesium teeth. John works with his sister, and the two bond over their romantic histories-which resemble scrap heaps as well. Then, one fateful night, a hidden stash of drug money turns up in a Ford LTD trunk with an extremely unpleasant smell. Now John has to launder the cash-literally-and figure out what to do with it. And what to do about a lot of things. Because this is not where he wants to die...
Nancy Zafris won the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction, as well as the Ohioana Library Association award, for her first book, The People I Know. She is currently the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review.
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