Motor City Suma: a collection - Softcover

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From the drug-infested parks of 1970s Detroit to the Cannes Film Festival, Susan “Suma” Brown led an extraordinary life. She ran away from home at 13 years old and kept on running, landing in hippie communes and mental hospitals, slinging hash in Motor City diners and working the assembly line at the Chrysler Corporation before becoming an EMT at Detroit’s notorious “gunshot hospital.” A witty raconteur and caregiver, Susan’s deliciously idiosyncratic manner of turning a phrase would get her in and out of situations both hilarious and heartbreaking. Her tumultuous romantic life was peppered by a cast of intriguingly difficult men, each one propelling her to the next adventure, leading her to New York City and the television commercial production business of the booming 1980s, where she became a film director. When she died suddenly at 54 years old, Susan Brown left behind a fascinating collection of poems, rants, fragments, short stories and scripts – all spoken in her unforgettable voice. This collection brings these together, for the first time, in a tribute to this remarkable woman. “Detroit is that danger-boy ex-boyfriend that totaled your car, wrecked your credit rating but could roll you around in bed like a trashy angel. You can put up with a lot before you have to walk away and NOT look back.” -- Susan Freeman Brown

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