You Don't Have to Live Like This
A Contemporary, Novels, Did Not Finish book. I had high hopes for this one, especially at the beginning. The only thing that...
A frighteningly prescient novel of today’s America—one man’s story of a racially-charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan“You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure on you is just momentum. As soon as you stop the momentum goes away. It’s easier than people think to walk out on things, I mean things like cities, leases, relationships and jobs.” —From You Don’t Have to Live Like ThisGreg Marnier, Marny to his friends, leaves a job he doesn’t much like and moves to Detroit, Michigan in...
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- Pages: 400 pages
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Based in Detroit, a city abandoned, a group of rich folk set buying up blocks and doing up the houses for financial gain. The story is about the folk that live there. I did enjoy this but won't stay with me forever. Greg, or Marny to his old college friends is a bit lost. After graduating from Yale and earning a PhD in literature at Oxford, he fell into a non-tenure track job teaching at a college in England. A brief meeting at a reunion leads to Greg quitting his job and returning to his parents' home in Louisiana. He decides to move to Detroit... I had high hopes for this one, especially at the beginning. The only thing that kept me interested was this quote early on: "You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure on you is just momentum. As soon as you stop the momentum goes away. It's easier than people...
