The Metal Shredders

A novel set inside John Bonner and Son Metal Shredders, a family scrapyard in Ohio, over one summer. Zafris knows the work – the sorting, the weighing, the hierarchy between the office and the yard – and the family tensions run along exactly those lines. It is a rare piece of fiction about an industry usually treated as background, written by someone who understood that scrap is a trade with its own expertise and pride.