Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb Holiday When her new roommate’s brother

When her new roommate’s brother is released from prison

It offers everything you need to know about fire in one useful volume: reflects on the history of humanity’s connection to flames

and they seem to be having their first post-Twilight resurgence

he realizes the only way to exile his phantom is by confronting his troubled past and going back to the events that led to his injury

But as their friendship develops into something more

Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb Holiday When her new roommate’s brotherTraces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid 1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle class community from stem to stern. That highway was never built, but it didn't matter even the failure to build it destroyed