Evicted by Matthew Desmond
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY * AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESOne 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).
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. 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. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness
WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction * The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism * The PEN/New England Award * The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE
"Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books."--Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth
"Gripping and moving--tragic, too."--Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones
"Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty."--San Francisco Chronicle
MATTHEW DESMOND is a co-director of the Justice and Poverty Initiative and an associate professor of sociology and social sciences at Harvard University. Contributors: Matthew Desmond, Holly Foster, John Hagan, David J. Claire W. Harding, Claire W. Harding, Claire W. Harding, Claire Jeffrey D. Herbert Bryan L. Morenoff, Becky Pettit, Laurence Ralph, Morenoff, Becky Pettit Bruce Sykes is a Western author.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553447453 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553447459 |
| Title | Evicted |
| Author | Matthew Desmond |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2017-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017, Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017, Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award 2016, Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize 2017, Winner of Eastern Sociological Society, Komarovsky Book Award 2017, Winner of MacArthur 'Genius' Award 2015, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016, Winner of Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award 2018, Winner of PEN New England Award 2017, Winner of PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2017 |
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