Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on 1000 Square Feet of the Lower East Side (Hardcover) by Katharine Greider

from Elleneer

"The Archaeology of Home" is a complex of layers upon layers. It is difficult for me to categorize this book: It is memoir. It is genealogy. It is an absorbing history of New York City's lower East Side. It is philosophy. We readers have the privilege to step into the luminous, intelligent (an in...

from TLCrawford

Katharine Greider received a life changing phone call in January of 2002 and this book is the ultimate result. She was told that her home, the first home she and her husband owned, the home where her first child was born, was unsafe and could collapse at any moment. The Archaeology of Home: An Ep...

from TLCrawford

Katharine Greider received a life changing phone call in January of 2002 and this book is the ultimate result. She was told that her home, the first home she and her husband owned, the home where her first child was born, was unsafe and could collapse at any moment. The Archaeology of Home: An Ep...

from Readerwoman

What an unusual book! Following the story of a home, a house, a place that has led a remarkable "life." Greider's home in the Lower East Side of Manhattan was falling down. Literally. This is the story of her journey of discovery about our American concept of owning your own home, about what "occ...

from RaucousRain

I enjoyed reading this book, although I liked it more for its history of New York City than for the litany of troubles connected with owning an old house. As an adult I have owned several older houses, the earliest structure was a small place originally built in 1773. I, too, have experienced bot...