Gentrifier: A Memoir

"In 2016, Anne Elizabeth Moore moved into a “free” house in Detroit’s Banglatown neighborhood. The bungalow, awarded to her by a now-defunct arts organization, was meant to be a Woolfian “room of one’s own.” Of course, the house wasn’t really free, and it didn’t allow Moore to make a living as a writer. In her funny and biting memoir, Gentrifier, Moore captures the vexation of life in Detroit, a city “shaped” by “corporate greed” that has devolved into a checkerboard of vacant lots. Crucially, she grapples with what it means to be a queer white woman in a Bangladeshi neighborhood in a Black city."