Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

7 reviews

daveketter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Desmond’s work is a solid, revealing, and heartbreaking encounter with poverty at its most fundamental impact—our homes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Abandonment and Suicide

rspades's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, and Physical abuse

evalion231's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Harrowing, heartbreaking, and overwhelming. i have little experience with poverty in America, and this book was eye opening and revolting and just sad. I felt disgusted and horrified. 

This book put faces and stories to my eviction data work in a way that is missing in our report tbh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Animal death

cady_sass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

A bleak and brutal look at the reality of poverty in America through the eyes of a number of Milwaukee residents constantly teetering the edge of homelessness. It’s easy to get lost in these peoples stories and forget this is nonfiction, for many who have never seen or experienced or even imagined poverty this reads like fiction. The endless cycle created by the American government is a tough pill to swallow. Imagining a woman choosing to tolerate physical abuse rather than call the police and risk being evicted for being a problem tenant? That’s real and that’s horrific. And that’s just one of many, many stories told here. This is another book that I wish everyone could be compelled to read, there is a deeper understanding here and the empathy that comes with that understanding is critical to making progressive change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Ableism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

maevebeck's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

excellent source for understanding poverty in a more intimate and human way. overall the story desmond tells is confusing and kind of all over the place. few stories actually have a beginning middle and end ?? i understand that they’re real stories tho and that’s not always possible. very good book though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Addiction, and Child abuse

elyssajoh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Addiction, and Abandonment

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