Fire on the Water: Inspired by the True-Life Tragedy

A graphic novel telling of the Lake Erie tunnel disaster in early-1900s Cleveland. In the story, the project is being feverishly carried out by immigrant laborers, despite safety and labor concerns, when a fiery explosion kills many of the workers, trapping more in the tunnel under the great lake. The city reluctantly calls in an African-American inventor who is the only person with the skills and imagination to stage a daring rescue for the surviving tunnelers. An exciting, fascinating, sharply-narrated story that tackles classism, racism, and their relationship with technological "progress."

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