National Avenue
by Booth Tarkington
415 pages~7 hrs
“The future is rising, but the past won't go down without a fight.”
In a rapidly evolving landscape where tradition clashes with the relentless march of industry, one ambitious developer risks everything to reshape the heart of the American Midwest. This gripping tale explores the heavy price of progress and the grit required to forge a suburban empire from the ground up.
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