Industry Reviews
"Astonishing... Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on poverty."-Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
"After reading Evicted, you'll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing. . . . The book is that good, and it's that unignorable."-Jennifer Senior, New York Times
"This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read. . . . It is beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable."-Bill Gates
"Inside my copy of his book, Mr. Desmond scribbled a note: 'home = life.' Too many in Washington don't understand that. We need a government that will partner with communities, from Appalachia to the suburbs to downtown Cleveland, to make hard work pay off for all these overlooked Americans."-Senator Sherrod Brown, Wall Street Journal
"My God, what [Evicted] lays bare about American poverty. It is devastating and infuriating and a necessary read."-Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women
"Written with the vividness of a novel, [Evicted] offers a dark mirror of middle-class America's obsession with real estate, laying bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions have become just another part of an often lucrative business model."-Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times
"In spare and penetrating prose . . . Desmond has made it impossible to consider poverty without grappling with the role of housing. This pick [as best book of 2016] was not close."-Carlos Lozada, Washington Post
"An essential piece of reportage about poverty and profit in urban America."-Geoff Dyer, The Guardian
"It doesn't happen every week (or every month, or even year), but every once in a while a book comes along that changes the national conversation. . . . Evicted looks to be one of those books."-Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review
"Should be required reading in an election year, or any other."-Entertainment Weekly
"Powerful, monstrously effective . . . The power of this book abides in the indelible impression left by its stories."-Jill Leovy, The American Scholar
"Gripping and important . . . [Desmond's] portraits are vivid and unsettling."-Jason DeParle, New York Review of Books
"An exquisitely crafted, meticulously researched exploration of life on the margins, providing a voice to people who have been shamefully ignored-or, worse, demonized-by opinion makers over the course of decades."-The Boston Globe
"[An] impressive work of scholarship . . . As Mr. Desmond points out, eviction has been neglected by urban sociologists, so his account fills a gap. His methodology is scrupulous."-Wall Street Journal
