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Title: Evicted
Subtitle: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author: Matthew Desmond
Narrator: Dion Graham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-01-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1908 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
From Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America.
In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind.
The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords: Sherrena Tarver, a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur; and Tobin Charney, who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others, but, as Sherrena puts it, "Love don't pay the bills". She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas.
Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their incomes on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality - and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship.
Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
Critic Reviews:
"A groundbreaking work.... Desmond delivers a gripping, novelistic narrative.... This stunning, remarkable book - a scholar's 21st-century
How the Other Half Lives - demands a wide audience." (
Kirkus Reviews)
"Gripping storytelling and meticulous research undergird this outstanding ethnographic study.... Desmond identifies affordable housing as a leading social justice issue of our time and offers concrete solutions to the crisis." (
Publishers Weekly)
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Evicted is astonishing - a masterpiece of writing and research that fills a tremendous gap in our understanding of poverty. Taking us into some of America's poorest neighborhoods, Desmond illustrates how eviction leads to a cascade of events, often triggered by something as simple as a child throwing a snowball at a car, that can trap families in a cycle of poverty for years. Beautiful, harrowing, and deeply human,
Evicted is a must read for anyone who cares about social justice in this country. I loved it." (Rebecca Skloot, author of
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
