In 2014, I won a writing competition where the award was a newly renovated home in Detroit. In the years following my move, the now-defunct program also awarded two nonfiction writers houses in my neighborhood, Liana Agahjanian and Anne Elizabeth Moore. The opening pages of Anne’s memoir Gentrifier recollect the day she moved to Detroit, when it was also announced on a local television station that the organization responsible for bringing us to Detroit would finally be awarding a house to a born and raised Detroiter, Nandi Comer.
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