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Matthew Desmond

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

A Harvard sociologist embeds for years with eight families and two landlords in Milwaukee, and turns eviction from a dry statistic into a human catastrophe you cannot look away from. Reported nonfiction that reads with the propulsion of a novel and the moral weight of a verdict.