The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” ( The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” ( New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE.
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