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Author Moore, Anne Elizabeth, author.

Title Gentrifier : a memoir / Anne Elizabeth Moore.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Catapult, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY MOORE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B MOORE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY MOORE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY MOORE, ANNE ELIZABETH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  B MOORE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B MOORE ANNE    Check Shelf
Description 254 pages ; 21 cm
Contents The house -- The neighborhood -- The date -- The city -- The work -- The neighbors -- The community -- The hole -- The homeowner -- Home.
Summary In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house--a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf--in Detroit's majority-Bangladeshi "Banglatown." Within months, her life changes dramatically, as told in this hilarious and gutting memoir. Accompanied by her cats, Anne Elizabeth Moore moves to a bungalow in a new city where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood youth, and grows to intimately understand civic collapse and community solidarity. When the troubled history of her prize house comes to light, Moore finds her life destabilized by the aftershocks of the housing crisis and governmental corruption. This is a memoir of art, gender, work, and survival. Moore writes into the gaps of Woolf's declaration that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write"; what if this woman were queer and living with chronic illness, as Moore is, or a South Asian immigrant, like Moore's neighbors? And what if her primary coping mechanism were jokes? Part investigation, part comedy of a vexing city, and part love letter to girlhood, Gentrifier examines capitalism, property ownership, and whiteness, asking if we can ever really win when violence and profit are inextricable linked with victory.
Subject Moore, Anne Elizabeth -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Lesbians -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography.
Housing -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Gentrification -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Art and society -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography.
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
Gentrification. (OCoLC)fst00940296
Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
Housing. (OCoLC)fst00962245
Michigan -- Detroit. (OCoLC)fst01205010
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Spine Title Gentrifier
ISBN 9781646220700
1646220706
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