Alexsandra Sukhoy

The Girl From Cleveland City: Episode 1: Welcome to Cleveland Alexsandra Sukhoy

A city. A woman. A crime. A young generation cursed with the sins of their parents. A family narrative spanning four generations. A truth long overdo. The Girl From Cleveland City takes its readers through the alleys, into the pubs and under the bridges of Cleveland - the most contemporary city of grit built on a river that set fire. Where the East Side vs. West Side divide still holds power and where which high school you went to carries weight long into your career. Cleveland is a city of contrasts holding itself together with a sense of local pride not seen anywhere else. It also mistrusts outsiders, even the ones who arrived to help the city prosper. With the days of The Theatrical and Danny Green long gone, and a youth movement determined to reinvent the 216, the past begins to clash with the present. At the center of the chaos is Esti, an influential and wealthy woman who has seen it all, lived it all and now lives immune to it all. Then one day, when she's prepared to close on the biggest real estate project the city has seen in 50 years, involving the most powerful men from all over the world, her universe implodes. As the secret she's kept buried risks visibility, she has to redefine survival, for herself, for her family and for all of Cleveland City. Part short stories, part essays, part screenplay, part photo album, The Girl From Cleveland City throws the reader down an irreversible rabbit hole of questionable characters making bad decisions, and the comeuppance they each must face.