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Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Amy Haimerl
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Description for Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, Color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BGHA; BM; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 472.
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighbourhood. 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 ... Read more
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighbourhood. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Running Press,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780762457359
SKU
V9780762457359
Shipping Time
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About Amy Haimerl
Amy Haimerl is a professor of journalism at Michigan State University and covers small business and urban policy for Fortune, Reuters and the New York Times. She was the entrepreneurship editor at Crain's Detroit Business, where she covered the city's historic bankruptcy trial. She is an alum of Fortune Small Business, CNNMoney and USAA Magazine, as well as a former ... Read more
Reviews for Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
The amazing charm of Detroit Hustle by Amy Haimerl is its brilliant use of concurrent narratives - one quite personal, one about a down-on-its-luck city trying to get up off its knees - to show how perseverance, community and love are so essential to both stories. Each chapter has you rooting for the city, but also cheering for the writer ... Read more