Teardown : Memoir of a Vanishing City (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

from jonerthon

If there's a book about Flint, I am eventually going to read it. And if there were a category for people feeling conflicted between their hometowns and wherever else they end up, that would overlap pretty thoroughly with my bookshelf. This author is a youngish guy trying to buy a house with his w...

from azrowan

s someone who grew up in a suburb of Flint and fled as fast as I could in 1991, I felt as if the author wrote what I had been feeling the last few years. A tremendous sense of pride of the history in Flint (3 generations worked at Buick), a tremendous sense of sorrow for what has become of the ar...

from velopunk

Glad he passed on a Flint house. Too much liberal guilt can kill you.

from jonerthon

If there's a book about Flint, I am eventually going to read it. And if there were a category for people feeling conflicted between their hometowns and wherever else they end up, that would overlap pretty thoroughly with my bookshelf. This author is a youngish guy trying to buy a house with his w...

from azrowan

s someone who grew up in a suburb of Flint and fled as fast as I could in 1991, I felt as if the author wrote what I had been feeling the last few years. A tremendous sense of pride of the history in Flint (3 generations worked at Buick), a tremendous sense of sorrow for what has become of the ar...