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After twenty years as a foreign correspondent in tumultuous

locales, Judith Matloff is ready to return to her native New York

City and start a family with her husband, John. Intoxicated by West

Harlem’s cultural diversity and, more important, its affordability,

Judith impulsively buys a stately fixer-upper brownstone in the

neighborhood–only to discover that this dream house was once a

crack den and that calling it a “fixer upper” is an understatement.

Thus begins the couple’s odyssey to win over brazen drug dealers,

delinquent c***truction workers, and eccentric neighbors in one of

the biggest drug zones in the country. It’s a far cry from utopia,

but it’s a start, and Judith and John do all they can to carve out

a comfortable life–and, over time, come to appreciate the

neighborhood’s rough charms. A wry, reflective, and hugely

entertaining memoir, Home Girl is for anyone who has longed

to go home, however complicated the journey.

Author’S Note

Prologue

PART ONE

  Chapter 1 Somewhere Uncivilized

  Chapter2 The Decision

  Chapter3 The Hunt

  Chapter4 Surprise!

  Chapter5 “Only God Can Protect Us”

  Chapter 6 The Narcotics Wall Street

  Chapter 7 Meet the Neighbors

  Chapter8 Abdu

  Chapter 9 Peace Talks

PART TW0

  Chapter l0 Homeland Insecurity

  Chapter ll Disunited Nati***

  Chapter l2 Nice Bones，Rotten Organs

  Chapter l3 A Parking Space for Mom

  Chapter l4 Quis CustodietIpsos Custodes？

  Chapter l5 Pioneer Living l l44

  Chapter 16 Ways to Kill a Cat

  Chapter 17 The Men from Mornenegro

  Chapter l8 CharmingApartment，with Doorman|180

  Chapter 19 State of Emergency

  Chapter 20 Anton l 205

  Chapter 21 Latte Arrives

  Chapter 22 SnortingAnthrax

PART THREE

  Chapter 23 Adi6s，Miguel

  Chapter 24 A Son of the Calle

  Chapter 25 Lights Out!

  Epilogue

  Acknowledgments

Judith Matloff is a contributing editor of the Columbia

Journalism Review and teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate

School of Journalism. She was a foreign correspondent for twenty

years, lastly as the bureau chief of The Christian Science

Monitor in Africa and Moscow. Her stories have appeared in

numerous publicati***, including The New York Times, The

Economist, Newsweek, and The Dallas Morning News, and

she is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant, a Fulbright

fellowship, and the Godsell, the Monitor’s highest accolade for

correspondence. Matloff still lives in West Harlem with her husband

and son.

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After twenty years as a foreign correspondent in tumultuous locales, Judith Matloff is ready to return to her native New York City and start a family with her husband, John. Intoxicated by West Harlem’s cultural diversity and, more important, its affordability, Judith impulsively buys a stately fixer-upper brownstone in the neighborhood–only to discover that this dream house was once a crack den and that calling it a “fixer upper” is an understatement. Thus begins the couple’s odyssey to win over brazen drug dealers, delinquent c***truction workers, and eccentric neighbors in one of the biggest drug zones in the country. It’s a far cry from utopia, but it’s a start, and Judith and John do all they can to carve out a comfortable life–and, over time, come to appreciate the neighborhood’s rough charms. A wry, reflective, and hugely entertaining memoir, Home Girl is for anyone who has longed to go home, however complicated the journey.