Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home

An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage.

When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set their sights instead on the purchase of a dilapidated house in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake City. With no homesteading experience and a full-blown quarter-life crisis on their hands, these perpetual grad students/waiters/nonprofiteers dec...