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You Don't Have to Live Like This : a Novel by Markovits, Benjamin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 2009, where an old friend has a big idea about real estate and the revitalization of a once great American city. Once there, he gets involved in a fist-fight between two of his friends, a racially charged trial, an act of vigilante justice, a love affair with a local high school teacher, and a game of three-on-three basketball with the President—not to mention the money-soaked real estate project itself, cut out of 600 acres of emaciated Detroit. Marny’s billionaire buddy from Yale, Robert James, calls his project “the Groupon model for gentrification,” others call it “New Jamestown,” and Marny calls it home— until R
Who reads You Don't Have to Live Like This : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Markovits, Benjamin
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062376619
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.3 / 5 (160 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14