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Sto caricando le informazioni... Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Homedi Amy Haimerl
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |   Amy and Karl lived in NY and were looking for somewhere to live where they could afford to buy a house for cheap and re-hab it. They cashed in their savings and bought an abandoned house in Detroit for $35,000. "The house...has no plumbing. No electricity. No heat...There is essentially nothing left inside the walls. Every pipe, every radiator, every wire is stripped. Every door is missing...What we have is a pile of bricks with character." So begins their journey in Detroit. As they meet their neighbors and work on their house, they learn how to make Detroit their home. I'd like to think that more people like Amy and Karl can save Detroit and maybe they can...one neighborhood at a time. (Thanks to goodreads for a copy of this book for a fair and honest review.) (  )1  susan0316 | May 9, 2016 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no heat, and no electricity, Amy finds a community of Detroiters who, like herself, aren't afraid of a little hard work or things that are a little rough around the edges. Filled with amusing and touching anecdotes about navigating a real-estate market that is rife with scams, finding a contractor who is a lover of C.S. Lewis and willing to quote him liberally, and neighbors who either get teary-eyed at the sight of newcomers or urge Amy and her husband to get out while they can, Amy writes evocatively about the charms and challenges of finding her footing in a city whose future is in question. Detroit Hustle is a memoir that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, and a love letter to a much-derided city."--provided by publisher. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)977.434History and Geography North America Midwestern U.S. Michigan Southeast counties DetroitClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.92)
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I also thought it was… interesting?... that Haimerl says she's middle class, yet sort of views herself as poor, and seems to lack an understanding of her own privilege; though, to her credit, she does seem to be trying to understand.
I found it very strange, though, that she brought up "gentrification" so much throughout the book, and made it seem like she was doing her best to cross racial barriers, only to reveal at the end of the book that, actually, all of her friends and everyone in her neighborhood are white.
Note: There was quite a lot of profanity in the book, especially the f-bomb. (