By Matthew Desmond
2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner; Non-Fiction
Publication Date: March 1, 2016
“A groundbreaking work on the central role of housing in the lives of the poor.” Desmond spent two years embedded with eight poor families and delivers a gripping, novelistic narrative on the ceaseless cycle of “making rent, delaying eviction, or finding another place to live when homeless,” a fact that is now commonplace for millions of Americans each year of every race and age. Not “light-reading for the beach,” but this stunning and remarkable book demands a wide audience. “We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty,” and, “All this suffering is shameful and unnecessary,” writes the author.
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