
Ashes of the Orchard
Katrinell M. Davis
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Detroit burns. Detroit remembers. Detroit refuses to forget.
In 1950s Detroit, the city bulldozed Black Bottom and Paradise Valley—two thriving Black communities—under the banner of urban renewal. Homes...
Location:
United States
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Katrinell M. Davis
Digital Voice Sarina Stone E
Pivot Press Books
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Description:
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Detroit burns. Detroit remembers. Detroit refuses to forget. In 1950s Detroit, the city bulldozed Black Bottom and Paradise Valley—two thriving Black communities—under the banner of urban renewal. Homes vanished. Businesses disappeared. Families were scattered. Seventy years later, the rubble is gone. But the people remember. Ruth Obadiah, a quiet factory worker with a steel spine, spends her nights documenting the human cost of “progress.” What begins as a personal archive becomes something far more dangerous—a living record charged with voices the city tried to silence. Soon, Ruth’s research attracts the attention of The Orchard, a covert collective reclaiming land, exposing buried histories, and demanding reparations with methods the city can no longer ignore. As mysterious fires ignite across abandoned blocks and powerful institutions move to crush this uprising, Ruth is forced into a role she never imagined—archivist, witness, and reluctant revolutionary. Caught between a city determined to erase its past and a movement determined to resurrect it, Ruth must choose how much she’s willing to risk to honor the dead—and protect the living. Ashes of the Orchard is a searing novel about displacement and return, historical violence and radical remembering—where memory is not passive, and the past is never truly past. Duration - 6h 32m. Author - Katrinell M. Davis. Narrator - Digital Voice Sarina Stone E. Published Date - Tuesday, 20 January 2026. Copyright - © 2025 Katrinell M. Davis ©.
Language:
English
Opening Remarks
Duration:00:00:10
PROLOGUE: WHAT WE PLANTED
Duration:00:02:06
CHAPTER 1: WHEN PROGRESS MEANT SACRIFICE
Duration:00:09:02
Chapter 2: WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US
Duration:00:12:10
Chapter 3:WHEN THE FIRE SPOKE TO ME
Duration:00:11:03
Chapter 4: WE WERE THE SOIL
Duration:00:10:21
Chapter 5: CLEANING THEIR SECRETS
Duration:00:11:30
Chapter 6: THE ORCHARD
Duration:00:10:36
Chapter 7: A MAP OF RUINS
Duration:00:08:01
Chapter 8: SWEET'S LAUGH AIN'T SWEET
Duration:00:08:05
Chapter 9: NO SUCH THING AS SAFETY
Duration:00:09:31
Chapter 10: SUNDAY SALT
Duration:00:11:38
Chapter 11: CONFESSION IN THE BASEMENT
Duration:00:06:12
Chapter 12: WE DIDN'T MEAN TO WIN
Duration:00:10:57
Chapter 13: I LOST SLEEP, NOT FAITH
Duration:00:08:43
Chapter 14: WHAT SWEET DID
Duration:00:10:24
Chapter 15: THE BOY WITH HIS HANDS UP
Duration:00:11:27
Chapter 16: THE DEEPER ARCHIVE
Duration:00:16:40
Chapter 17: FIRST BROADCAST
Duration:00:10:02
Chapter 18: THE CITY RESPONDS
Duration:00:05:45
Chapter 19: HE KNEW
Duration:00:18:44
Chapter 20: CONTAINMENT
Duration:00:14:42
Chapter 21:WE DON’T ALL SURVIVE THE SOUND
Duration:00:15:43
Chapter 22: UNDER PRESSURE
Duration:00:14:28
Chapter 23:THEY CAN’T UNHEAR IT
Duration:00:04:18
Chapter 24: THEY BROUGHT HEALING WITH A KNIFE
Duration:00:05:01
Chapter 25: THE NIGHT THE CITY FORGOT HOW TO BREATHE
Duration:00:04:33
Chapter 26: EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE
Duration:00:04:58
Chapter 27: WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Duration:00:05:07
Chapter 28: DIRT DON’T SLEEP
Duration:00:03:24
Chapter 29: THE RETURN
Duration:00:09:43
Chapter 30: LANGUAGE MADE OF LIGHT
Duration:00:04:02
Chapter 31: SWEET’S ULTIMATUM
Duration:00:04:08
Chapter 32: THE FALSE BROADCAST
Duration:00:03:36
Chapter 33: ANCESTOR INTERFERENCE
Duration:00:04:28
Chapter 34: THE DEEP PULSE
Duration:00:03:33
Chapter 35: THE QUIET KID
Duration:00:07:58
Chapter 36: THE LISTENING WALL
Duration:00:07:42
Chapter 37: REMEMORY
Duration:00:07:27
Chapter 38: THE NAME SHE TOOK BACK
Duration:00:05:57
Chapter 39: NOT ALL NAMES SLEEP:
Duration:00:12:34
Chapter 40: THE ARCHIVE CORRECTS ITSELF
Duration:00:10:29
Chapter 41: THE HUM REWRITES CODE
Duration:00:10:26
Chapter 42: THE ROOTS ARE SMARTER THAN THE CITY
Duration:00:12:19
EPILOGUE: WHAT THE SOIL STILL KNOWS
Duration:00:10:59
Author's Note
Duration:00:01:33
Closing Remarks
Duration:00:00:26