Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

42 reviews

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Police brutality

fogthroughthevalley's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Contains both personal stories of eviction and academic analysis of the issue. The anecdotes draw you in and the issue solidifies in a way that might not already be apparent for people who have not experienced poverty and eviction firsthand. I would deem this an essential read for anyone interested in better understanding the inhumane systems currently in place in the United States.

Two quotes/sections of the book that immediately stood out to me:
"When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of all sorts of shipwrecked humanity, they lost confidence in its political capacity. 
Milwaukee renters who perceived higher levels of neighborhood trauma, believing that their neighbors had experienced incarceration, abuse, addiction, and other harrowing events, were far less likely to believe that people in their community could come together to improve their lives. 
This lack of faith had less to do with their neighborhood's actual poverty and crime rates than with the level of concentrated suffering they perceived around them. 
A community that saw so clearly its own pain, had a difficult time also sensing its potential."

"But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality."
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

dominicangirl's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

kaddyren's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and has memorable characters, but would probably not read again any time soon. Lots of triggering subjects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

edie_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Excrement, and Cursing

julesapollo's review against another edition

dark relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

samvanz12's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Racial slurs

wordswithjustine's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

This book is a sobering and insightful look at poverty in America, especially in regards to housing.  It was well-written and will be on my mind for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Physical abuse

mongoosenamedt's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Drug use

katsudonburi's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

A brutal and incredibly upsetting look at poverty and the damage eviction does to people and their families; what keeps it from reading as trauma porn is the author's deep commitment to the humanity of his subjects and constant examination of the systems that have not so much failed them as been designed to exploit them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape