she'll be joined today with steven henderson, 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, with two profiles in the book by jodie and we'll escort them in when they arrive. we're going to have jodie start off, she's going to talk about the book and do a little bit of a reading, and then there will be conversation with steven and then they'll open it up to questions and answers. so with that i'm going to hand this microphone -- you don't need it. i'm going to give it to steven. >> thank you so much for being here. i am excited and also have some trepidation about discussing this book for you. this is your city, this is what you have lived, and i am eager to hear your responses and hope that we can have as much time for a conversation as possible. so i am going to keep my remarks to a minimum for that and what i just like to do is, this is book that follows seven people living in detroit, during and after the city's bankruptcy. it's not a book about downtown, it's not a book about m