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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

20/100

Critics

67/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Publisher:

Catapult

Date:

October 19, 2021

A memoir of Detroit that takes on the ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood.

What The Reviewers Say

Kristen Martin,
NPR
Through a series of darkly comic vignettes with epigraphs from Woolf's essay framing each chapter, she uncovers the city's incompetent governance.
Courtney Eathorne,
Booklist
Moore infuses this memoir with keenly researched insights about the historical forces that created Detroit’s (and America’s) housing crisis, creating a heartfelt, funny, thought-provoking meditation on the multifaceted fallacy of the American Dream..

Publishers Weekly
Wry.

Kirkus
A series of eye-opening vignettes.