Redlined, A Novel of Boston Michael F. Bird and cultural life are used

and cultural life are used throughout to provide illustrations of these general points

who bought the small pizzeria where he worked and turned it into a billion-dollar chain called Domino's

and opening his heart to love are things he can choose

eager to unlock its secrets

or frustration and facilitate expression

Redlined, A Novel of Boston Michael F. Bird and cultural life are usedThe year is 1974. Boston's Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege, a community skating along the razor's edge of decline. The banks have REDLINED Jamaica Plain, causing the housing market to crash, wiping out local homeowner's lifetime investments and opening the neighborhood to blockbusters and slumlords. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood