My Vertical Neighborhood
How Strangers Became a Community

Reading this book felt moving into the apartment building with Lynda and sitting in a corner while watching friendships unfold. This book is a memoir of Lynda's experience moving into a high rise apartment and trying to intentionally love her neighbors. What I loved about this book is that it showed......more

This is a wonderful book. It is told as a story of how the author changed her lifestyle to discover how one can love our neighbours as ourselves, and thus obey Jesus. The book recounts the experience of the author moving into a high-rise apartment in a metropolis and then learning to experience comm......more

Summary: The author’s account of moving from a small eastern Canada town to a Toronto highrise and how strangers became neighbors that she learned to love. Lynda MacGibbon transferred for work reasons from a small eastern Canada town to Toronto, moving into a highrise. She had wanted to learn how to......more

Lynda MacGibbon’s “My Vertical Neighborhood: How Strangers Became a Community” is a thoughtful and compelling exploration of urban life, community-building, and the connections that can form in the unlikeliest of places. In this memoir, MacGibbon reflects on her experience living in a high-rise apar......more

Really enjoyed this poignant and touching memoir about trying to build community in an urban condo building. While I have not attempted anything as grand as this undertaking (a 5 year open house on Monday nights), I have my share of experience hosting dinner parties and trying to organize hiking/cam......more