"In 2016, Write A House, a Detroit-based arts organization, granted Anne Elizabeth Moore, Eisner winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist, a free house-a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf-in Detroit's majority-Bangladeshi "Banglatown." This is a witty memoir of what came after. Accompanied by her cats, Moore uproots her life in Chicago and moves to a bungalow where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood children, learns about unsafe water and malfunctioning voting machines, and grows to intimately understand civic collapse and community solidarity. When the troubled history of her prize house comes to light, Moore finds her life destabilized by the aftershocks of the housing crisis and the local government's corruption. This is also a memoir of art, gender, and work. Moore writes into the gaps of Woolf's declaration that "a woman must have money and a room of one's own if she is to write" ; what if this woman were queer and living with chronic illness, as Moore is, or a South Asian immigrant, like Moore's neighbors? Part investigation, part comedy of a vexing city, and part love letter to girlhood, Gentrifier examines capitalism, property ownership, and whiteness, asking if we can ever really win when violence and profit are inextricably linked with victory"--Provided by publisher.