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June 29, 2016

Today's Featured Title and Contest June 29, 2016
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, June 30th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of DETROIT HUSTLE: A Memoir of Love, Life, and Home by Amy Haimerl, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Today's Featured Book and Contest: DETROIT HUSTLE: A Memoir of Love, Life, and Home, by Amy Haimerl
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. 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 amusing and touching anecdotes about navigating a real-estate market that is rife with scams, finding a contractor who is a lover of C.S. Lewis and willing to quote him liberally, and neighbors who either get teary-eyed at the sight of newcomers or urge Amy and her husband to get out while they can, Amy writes evocatively about the charms and challenges of finding her footing in a city whose future is in question.

DETROIT HUSTLE is a memoir that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, and a love letter to a much-derided city.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Visit Amy Haimerl's official website and Instagram.
-Click here to connect with Amy Haimerl on Twitter.

 
Click here to enter the contest by Thursday, June 30th at 11:59am ET.

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