Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, Enrique Maldonado Roldn
2016·418 pages·Nonfiction
“Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”
— Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth
“has set a new standard for reporting on poverty”
— Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review
“Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”
— Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones
“wrenching and revelatory”
— The Nation
“vivid and unsettling”
— New York Review of Books
Year
2016
Pages
418
Type
Nonfiction
Tags
Praise
“Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”
— Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth
“has set a new standard for reporting on poverty”
— Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review
“Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”
— Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones
“wrenching and revelatory”
— The Nation
“vivid and unsettling”
— New York Review of Books
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