General Motors' Baby

GENERAL MOTORS' BABY Who is General Motors' baby?Symbolically, you are.General Motors' Baby is a sweeping work of historical fiction that explores the people, families, and culture created in the wake of America's industrial revolution. Through the lives of ordinary people, the novel brings the Great Migration to life-revealing why thousands of Black families left the South for the North in search of jobs, security, dignity, and a better future.But the story begins long before the assembly line.It reaches back to the Odawa people and Chief Pontiac, whose name became permanently connected to the Michigan city that would eventually become home to one of the world's greatest automobile industries. From Native trails to railroad tracks, from Southern farms to Northern factories, generations of people helped build a culture that history often overlooks.General Motors became famous for the automobiles it produced. But what about the people it helped produce?They built families, neighborhoods, churches, businesses, traditions, and dreams. They created a culture that could easily be dismissed from the outside as poor, rough, or insignificant. Yet their struggles and triumphs became part of the very civilization that General Motors helped shape.The history books remember the company.This novel remembers the people.General Motors' Baby crosses racial, cultural, geographic, and generational boundaries to tell a story about migration, survival, family, identity, opportunity, and the complicated pursuit of the American Dream.Because sometimes history is not found in the boardroom or on the factory floor.Sometimes, history is found in the people who went to work there.And those people had a story to tell.