![]() Many people have very codified perceptions of “people who get evicted” and suspect that those people are largely responsible-through bad decision making-for their circumstances. What was your experience reading Evicted? Were you surprised by what you learned? Was any particular scene or character’s story emotionally painful for you to witness?ģ. ![]() Have you ever been evicted or do you know anyone who has? If the answer is yes, what was your/their experience like, and how has it affected your/their life?Ģ. Nothing else this year came close.”- Jennifer Senior, New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2016ġ. The book is that good, and it’s that unignorable. You will also have the mad urge to press it into the hands of every elected official you meet. After reading Evicted, you’ll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing. It regally combines policy reporting and ethnography, following eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to find that most basic human necessity: shelter. ![]() “I’ve come to think of Evicted as a comet book - the sort of thing that swings around only every so often, and is, for those who’ve experienced it, pretty much impossible to forget. ![]() But I would like to claim him as a journalist too, and one who, like Katherine Boo in her study of a Mumbai slum, has set a new standard for reporting on poverty.” -Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review ![]() “Astonishing…Desmond is an academic who teaches at Harvard-a sociologist or, you could say, an ethnographer. ![]()
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