NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NAMED ONE
OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - 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).
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.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY 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
