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Home Girl
Home
Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block
By Judith Matloff, www.randomhouse.com
Release date: June 24, 2008
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You know
you’ve moved into a dangerous part of town when the first person who learns of
your pregnancy is the neighborhood drug dealer.
Home Girl is the memoir of Judith Matloff. Judith was a journalist traveling all over
the world covering the news, when she finally decided to settle down with her
husband, a fellow journalist. Where else but
Judith and her husband decide to re-model a
house in a dangerous and drug-infested part of
From the
characters who live around Judith’s house, to her struggle to become a mother
at the age of 42, I was enthralled with her story. In fact, I was so interested that I Googled
her, and to my delight I found she had made a video showing viewers around her
house. She even filmed the infamous
“Salami”, her neighbor. Judith sure
knows how to live, and those who have experienced her story are better off for
having read about how she has lived her life.
Watch her video below~
Book Room Grade
A
Review Posted: May 22, 2008
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