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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 construction 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 Nations

  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 publications, 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 construction 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.