Hapeville Car Trouble Blues

Linda Leeb
9 min readMar 5, 2024

It was in Hapeville, Georgia that I discovered that Kafka was not a fiction writer but a prescient documentarian. I had just moved to Hapeville from Decatur. Even before the events recounted here, it was a downhill move. Hapeville’s major distinction is that the Atlanta airport, one of the biggest in the nation, is located there. If you are familiar with areas near airports anywhere in the country, you can accurately envision the level of charm and beauty of Hapeville. Decatur is fun, happening, and diverse. Hapeville is small, mean, and eerily white for a town so near Atlanta. I had to move there because…

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