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What moved you to create the fictional Cutler County, Mich.?

Cutler County is based on Emmet County, Mich., and my hometown of Petoskey, which is situated on Lake Michigan and is startlingly beautiful.

In one example he recounts, a war veteran eligible for benefits under the GI Bill was not able to get a loan in Flint, Mich., because local lenders weren’t willing to make them in Black neighborhoods.

But Flint, Mich., native Claressa Shields, for whom pugilism was a passion, entered the ring early: As a teenage phenom, she punched her way to record-setting, Olympic-gold levels.

“What we know from our and others’ research is that manufacturing is most likely to get a boost from customized assistance to workers and firms rather than large-scale, blunt federal policies,” said Brad Hershbein, a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Mich.