Transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation

The Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County will host a discussion of Matthew Desmond’s  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City on Monday, May 7, 6 – 7:30 p.m. at the Oakland Library.To register for this program, contact Bonnie at 301-334-3996 extension 0117 or bonnie@relib.net. The library has limited copies of the paperback book available for those who register, as well as copies in the system’s online catalog for checkout.

The book jacket description of Desmond’s book, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, reads “In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur ‘Genius’ Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as ‘wrenching and revelatory’ (The Nation), ‘vivid and unsettling’ (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.”

Matthew Desmond is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Justice and Poverty Project. A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is the author of the award-winning book, On the Fireline, coauthor of two books on race, and editor of a collection of studies on severe deprivation in America. His work has been supported by the Ford, Russell Sage, and National Science Foundations, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune. In 2015, Desmond was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant.