she will be joined today with steven henderson, who is our local pulitzer prize winning journalist and also the host of detroit today. we may have a couple other guests join up here on the panel discussion, who were profiled in the book by jody, and we'll escort them in when they arrive. so with that, what we're going to do is have jody start off. she's going to talk a little bit about the book and doing a little bit of a reading, and then there will be in conversation with steven, and then they will open it up to questions and answers. so with that, i'm going to hand this microphone -- no, you don't need it. i'm going to give it to steven. >> thank you so much for being here. i'm excited and also have some trepidation about discussing this book for you. this is your city. this is what you've lived. and i'm eager to hear your responses and hope that we can have as much time for a conversation as possible. so i'm going to keep my remarks to a minimum for that, and what i like to do is this is a book that follows seven people living in detroit, during and after the city's bankruptcy. it'