This is a good book. It's well written, very nostalgic and melancholic. It does a great job showing the gentrification process and how it affects the original residents of a neighbourhood. It's a passing picture of people's lives in the Mile End and how this kind of change affects them. 

But it wasn't for me. Maybe because I'm on the other side of the process. I'm a new resident on a nearby area (not the Mile End, but pretty close). I'm one of those mentioned more than a few times like the "intruders" in the book. Trust me, we don't appreciate the ever increasing prices of everything, either.

Some stories I enjoyed more than others. The more intimate ones, mostly. The ones that have the neighbourhood as an escenario (or even secondary character) and are more focused on the people's lives and inner struggles if that makes sense.