![]() ![]() In Jonno, Beukes has created a character both out of touch and realistic, bearing a resemblance to any number of reporters who hop in and out of cities trying to break the most context-less sensationalist stories. ![]() He navigates through abandoned factories and squats to highlight Detroit’s poor and dejected in a quest to find the city’s most startling ruin porn. Jonno Haim, a thirtysomething failed writer from New York, has parachuted into Detroit as a citizen journalist to tell the “real” untold story of the city’s blight. To get the public interested in the boy’s death, “because if it’s not a little blonde white girl, you need a human interest angle,” the police craft a narrative to the press about Daveyton being emblematic of “Detroit’s plucky survivor spirit,” now snuffed out. Barnum gaff.īeukes raises uncomfortable questions about race and class at every turn. The result is a kind of mutilated, mythological P.T. It opens with Versado investigating the murder of a young black boy, Daveyton Lafonte, whose torso has been fused with a fawn’s lower half. Gabrielle Versado over the course of 10 days as she tries to catch a serial killer dubbed the Detroit Monster. ![]()
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