The Audacious Book Club: Poverty, by America

Our April selection by Matthew Desmond

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted, sociologist and MacArthur Grant recipient Matthew Desmond followed eight struggling families in Milwaukee as they tried to find and keep a home. The book, published in 2016 and widely hailed as a modern masterpiece, reminds readers of how important home is both as a concept and as a physical location and how i…