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Fun for this Detroiter who also remembers shopping trips to Northland and Somerset, dressing up to see shows at the Fisher Theater and birthday dinners at Joe Muir. But also white flight, the annihilation of the promise of school desegregation, the wildfire escalation of violent crime, the unbridgable 8 Mile Road. The writing is okay enough, there are no major insights, but it is quite a pleasant read.

A gentle story of one Black family in the 20th century, but also, necessarily, the story of what Black people had to do to end-run a system set up to hold them back. Davis uses her family's story well to illustrate the reality. Also, this is a reminiscence of a moment in Detroit in which the author and I grew up, and it is fascinating for me to read about what happened on the other side of 8 Mile.