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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER |?KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION FINALIST?| LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION?|?NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by?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?•?Bookpage?•?Kirkus Reviews?•??Amazon?•??Barnes and Noble Review?•??Apple?•??Library Journal • Chicago Public Library?•?Publishers Weekly?• Booklist •?Shelf Awareness

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond， a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America
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In this brilliant， heartbreaking book， Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar， a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after， tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent， and all have fallen behind.

The fates of these families are in the hands of two landlords： Sherrena Tarver， a former schoolteacher turned inner-city entrepreneur， and Tobin Charney， who runs one of the worst trailer parks in Milwaukee. They loathe some of their tenants and are fond of others， but as Sherrena puts it， “Love don’t pay the bills.” She moves to evict Arleen and her boys a few days before Christmas.

Even in the most desolate areas of American cities， evictions used to be rare. But today， most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing， and eviction has become ordinary， especially for single mothers. In vivid， intimate prose， Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. As we see families forced? into shelters， squalid apartments， or more dangerous neighborhoods， we bear witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality—and to people’s determination and intelligence in the face of hardship.

Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data， this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating， uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home， without which nothing else is possible.

-?New York Times Book Review， 100 Notable Books of 2016
- Los Angeles Times， The 10 Most Important Books of 2016
-?Washington Post， Top 10 Title for 2016

作者簡介

Matthew Desmond?is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project. A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is the author of the award-winning book?On the Fireline,?coauthor of two books on race, and editor of a collection of studies on severe deprivation in America. His work has been supported by the Ford, Russell Sage, and National Science Foundations, and his writing has appeared in the?New York Times?and?Chicago Tribune. In 2015, Desmond was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant.

精彩書評

"Astonishing...Desmond is an academic who teaches at Harvard—a sociologist or， you could say， an ethnographer. 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

“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. It regally combines policy reporting and ethnography， following eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to find that most basic human necessity： shelter. After reading?Evicted， you’ll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing. You will also have the mad urge to press it into the hands of every elected official you meet. The book is that good， and it’s that unignorable. Nothing else this year came close.”
—Jennifer Senior，?New York Times?Critics’ Top Books of 2016

“In this astonishing feat of ethnography， Desmond immerses himself in the lives of Milwaukee families caught in the cycle of chronic eviction. In spare and penetrating prose， this Harvard sociologist chronicles the economic and psychological toll of living in substandard housing， and the eviscerating impact of constantly moving between homes and shelters. With?Evicted， Desmond has made it impossible to consider poverty without grappling with the role of housing. This pick [as best book of 2016] was not close.”
—Carlos Lozada，?Washington Post

“Written with the vividness of a novel， [Evicted] offers a dark mirror of middle-class America’s obsession with real estate， laying bare the workings of the low end of the market， where evictions have become just another part of an often lucrative business model.”
—Jennifer Schuessler， New York Times

“My God， what [Evicted] lays bare about American poverty. It is devastating and infuriating and a necessary read.”
—Roxane Gay， author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women

"It doesn't happen every week (or every month， or even year)， but every once in a while a book comes along that changes the national conversation... Evicted looks to be one of those books."?
—Pamela Paul， editor of the New York Times Book Review

“An essential piece of reportage about poverty and profit in urban America.”
—Geoff Dyer， The Guardian’s Best Holiday Reads 2016

"Should be required reading in an election year， or any other."
—Entertainment Weekly

“Thank you， Matthew Desmond. Thank you for writing about destitution in America with astonishing specificity yet without voyeurism or judgment. Thank you for showing it is possible to compose spare， beautiful prose about a complicated policy problem. Thank you for giving flesh and life to our squabbles over inequality， so easily consigned to quintiles and zero-sum percentages. Thank you for proving that the struggle to keep a roof over one’s head is a cause， not just a characteristic of poverty... Evicted is an extraordinary feat of reporting and ethnography. Desmond has made it impossible to ever again consider poverty in America without tackling the role of housing—and without grappling with Evicted.”?
—Washington Post

“Powerful， monstrously effective…[Evicted] documents with impressive steadiness of purpose and command of detail the lives of impoverished renters at the bottom of Milwaukee’s housing market…In describing the plight of these people， Desmond reveals the confluence of seemingly unrelated forces that have conspired to create a thoroughly humiliated class of the almost or soon-to-be homeless…But the power of this book abides in the indelible impression left by its stories.”
—Jill Leovy， The American Scholar

“Gripping and important…Desmond， a Harvard sociologist， cites plenty of statistics but it’s his ethnographic gift that lends the work such force. He’s one of a rare academic breed： a poverty expert who engages with the poor. His portraits are vivid and unsettling…It’s not easy to show desperate people using drugs or selling sex and still convey their courage and dignity.?Evicted?pulls it off.”?
—Jason DeParle， New York Review of Books

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