A review by lily1304
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Honestly this was a brilliant ethnography - people don't take sociology seriously as a field of research, but this is an example of why they should! Personal stories hit home more than impersonal statistics, but Desmond cites plenty of research too to back up the stories he records.
Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!
Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Racism
Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence
Descriptions of eviction, homelessness, hunger, and poverty