<p><i>BrokeCity</i>, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, followsyoung Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmontonneighbourhood of Santa Rosa.</p><p>Budding with creativitythat her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions herparents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubblingjust under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her familyto her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingtown, a community built on meat-packingplants and abattoirs, on death.</p><p>Written with tightlyricism, <i>Broke City</i> is a brimming working-class gothicnovel that reveals Christine's deepening knowledge of the adult world aroundher and of her own complicated place in that world. </p><p><i>BrokeCity</i>, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, followsyoung Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmontonneighbourhood of Santa Rosa.</p><p>Budding with creativitythat her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions herparents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubblingjust under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her familyto her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingtown, a community built on meat-packingplants and abattoirs, on death.</p><p>Written with tightlyricism, <i>Broke City</i> is a brimming working-class gothicnovel that reveals Christine's deepening knowledge of the adult world aroundher and of her own complicated place in that world. </p>