Nancy's Book Group - Metropolis

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will” - Suzy Kassem.

Please join Nancy Zachary in the Scott Room to discuss Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro.

"An eclectic cast of characters converges in a self-storage warehouse where crime lurks in every unit.

"Metropolis is the name of a seedy self-storage facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where several renters are hiding more than old furniture and paperwork. Liddy, a wealthy housewife with a violent husband, spends drug-fueled afternoons in a unit stuffed with her children's old toys. Jason, a lawyer fired from his prestigious firm and left by his wife, hangs a shingle outside his unit and practices law from a makeshift office inside. Marta, a brilliant Venezuelan graduate student whose visa has been revoked, lives in her unit while on the run from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The building’s owner, Zach, and his employee, Rose, look the other way when renters break the law by occupying units intended for inanimate objects. These arrangements might have continued peacefully were it not for a violent incident, foreshadowed on the first page, in which a man is seriously injured in the building’s elevator shaft" - Kirkus.