Monday, January 10, 2022

Gentrifier: a memoir

 

Gentrifier: a memoir / Anne Elizabeth Moore 254 pgs.

Virginia Woolf knew that to write, you need a space.  Anne Elizabeth Moore accepts a space in the form of a house in Detroit that is given to her.  The organization has good intentions of giving houses to writers. Moore befriends her mostly Bengali neighbors and starts a garden.  She does research on the problems in Detroit with housing and neglect.  She ends up spending quite a bit of money on her free house teaching us to be wary of accepting "free" things.  Very interesting stuff. 

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