The Turmoil
by Booth Tarkington
375 pages~6 hrs
“In a city forged in fire and greed, a poet must find his place or be consumed by the smoke.”
Bibbs Sheridan is a sensitive dreamer trapped in a family that values cold industrial progress and profit above all else. As his father’s smoke-filled empire looms over him, Bibbs must navigate the crushing weight of legacy and social expectation in a rapidly transforming Midwestern city.
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