You Don't Have To Live Like This: From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now wealthy and influential from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. For a small investment, Greg can turn himself into a twentieth-century pioneer. But for every urban misfit who''s come for a fresh start, there''s a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials. Soon, the realities of life on America''s urban frontier become all too apparent . . .

• | Author: Benjamin Markovits
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Jul 07, 2016
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571313426
• | ISBN-10: 0571313426