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    How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass

    By Aaron Foley

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    In one of Curbed: Detroit’s Top 11 Books about Detroit, Aaron Foley, editor of The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, offers the definitive inside look at one of America’s most talked-about and least understood cities. 

    With a wry sense of humor, Foley, a native Detroiter, walks you through the most difficult questions about the Motor City, offering seven simple rules for making it there. Perfect for coastal transplants, wary suburbanites, unwitting gentrifiers, or start-up disruptors, this recently updated guidebook offers advice on everything from the glories of Vernors ginger ale to how to rehab a house to how to not sound like an uninformed racist. In twenty short chapters, Foley walks you through:

    • How Detroiters do business

    • The unofficial guide to enjoying Faygo

    • How to be gay in Detroit

    • How to raise a Detroit kid

    • How to party in Detroit.

    Both hilarious and insightful, this no-frills look at Motown is written for those who live there but also, as Vanity Fair put it, “for anyone participating in contemporary global urbanization who would like to avoid behaving like a subjugating dick.” 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBelt Publishing
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781948742467
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    How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass
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    Aaron Foley

    Aaron Foley is the City of Detroit's chief storyteller, a position created for him by Mayor Mike Duggan to tell the stories of Detroiters citywide. A resident, he has served as the editor of BLAC Detroit Magazine and has worked for Jalopnik, CNN, MLive, and the Lansing State Journal. His Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook was published by Belt in 2017.

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