I’m taking us back to 2021 for this one! Keep reading to see a brief summary about the books that were my favorite and why.

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

In his book, Desmond uses rigorous sociological research and ethnography to show the brutal truth of poverty in America. It is written so well and does a fantastic job of capturing the individual experiences of tenets and landlords while at the same time showing how their experiences and decisions are intertwined. The stories are so unbelievable that they almost read like fiction. Fortunately I live worlds away from what was described in these pages so the truth of it, the unforgiving honesty in the facts, was equal parts shocking and depressing. 

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