{"product_id":"gentrifier-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Gentrifier: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Elizabeth Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\" Accompanied by her cats, Moore moves to the bungalow in her 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is also 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 one's 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 was jokes? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart investigation, part comedy of a vexing city, and part love letter to girlhood, \u003ci\u003eGentrifier\u003c\/i\u003e examines capitalism, property ownership, and whiteness, asking if we can ever really win when violence and profit are inextricably linked with victory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNE ELIZABETH MOORE\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Winner, South Dakota. She has written several critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including the Lambda Literary Award-nominated \u003ci\u003eBody Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017, and \u003ci\u003eSweet Little Cunt\u003c\/i\u003e, which won an Eisner Award. She lives in Delaware County, New York with her ineffective feline personal assistant, Captain America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.19 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186879676665,"sku":"9781646221592","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZDZSSTJJSU5xeFVPNWwzNk9kVld4QT09.webp?v=1767848499","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/gentrifier-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}