![]() ![]() Besides the Pulitzer, the book received an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and a National Book Critics Circle award. Are we - we the secure, the insured, the housed, the college educated, the lucky - somehow responsible for all this suffering?"ĭesmond's “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" was published in 2016 and focused on eight families in an impoverished area of Milwaukee. To understand the causes of poverty, we must hold a mirror up to ourselves. “But they cannot answer the most fundamental question, which is: Why all this poverty in this land of abundance? I’ve learned that that question requires a different approach. “Books about poverty, including ‘Evicted,’ tend to be books about the poor, tend to bear witness,” Desmond said in a statement issued Wednesday by Crown. ![]() According to Crown, Desmond will document how the wealthy harm the poor, knowingly and unknowingly. ![]() It also asks why.Ĭrown will publish “Poverty, by America” on March 21, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) - Matthew Desmond's first book since his Pulitzer Prize winning “Evicted” is not just a study of who is poor in the world's richest country. ![]()
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