![]() ![]() All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. 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. ![]() 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. 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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