Wes loves his community and his friends and everything seems great until a developer comes in offering to buy up the houses. Their plan is to then redo the neighborhood and make condos. Sounds great right? Especially because the families will be getting a lot more for their houses than the market value. But, of course they will have to move. They wouldn't be able to live in the new condos - they couldn't afford them. Wes doesn't want to leave and soon learns that this "process" is called gentrification. Can Wes figure out a way to take back his block?
Overall this was a good book. This wasn't a term I had really come across (unless it was when people misspelled genrification - which even my spell check is questing right now). I felt that there were some gaps in the plot that weren't fully resolved - kind of nagging bits or things the author put in that didn't really get the closure they needed - especially in regards to Kari. Overall though a good read.
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