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http://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/51UCUEc7N8L._SX332_BO1204203200_.jpg334499If you’re the last person to leave Detroit, don’t forget to turn off the lights. This is the first sentence of my new release, THE WELCOME HOME DINER, and contemporary Detroit was the primary inspiration behind writing this book. There were other motivating factors—insight into the food business, personal intimacies—but I’ll get to those later. […]