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by by Drew Philp
A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new
neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create
meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live
where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned
buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money,
Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as
Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a
crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof.
A $500 House in Detroit is Philp’s raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame
of his house, nail by nail and room by room. “Philp is a great storyteller…[and his] engrossing”
(Booklist) tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own
generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city
gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As
he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city’s
vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class
warfare.
Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in
Detroit “shines [in its depiction of] the ‘radical neighborliness’ of ordinary people in desperate
circumstances” (Publishers Weekly). This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative
revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come.
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