A review by oversherin
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I found this book incredibly powerful. While it is a nonfiction book that weaves in lots of statistics and sociological theories, it reads like a narrative. At first, I had trouble keeping all of the people straight and it felt like characters came and went quickly. However by 25% of the way in, it was clear who the major characters were. The stories were sometimes hard to listen too but they really illustrated the cycle of poverty and eviction in a way I did not understand before. I liked the long epilogue that recomended policy solutions and discussed the process of making the book. It recontextualized the whole piece. I will remember these peoples' stories for a long time. This book has certainly informed and affected my understanding of poverty and economics in America.