![]() 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.Ī $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. ![]() ![]() 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. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. 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).ĭrew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a difference. ![]()
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