[Hac-announce] November 2017 Book Discussion: "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond - held Saturday, Dec. 2

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Our book for November is Evicted: Poverty and Property in the American City by sociologist Matthew Desmond. Note that, due to scheduling conflicts and Thanksgiving, the discussion for the November selection will take place Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 2 pm in the library of the Unitarian Society of New Haven at 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden (in conjunction with Humanist Explorations).



>From Amazon:












In Evicted, Harvard 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.

 
"Astonishing...Desmond is an academic who teaches at Harvard—a sociologist or, you could say, an ethnographer. But I would like to claim him as a journalist too, and one who, like Katherine Boo in her study of a Mumbai slum, has set a new standard for reporting on poverty." – Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review

























 

Light snacks will be served.


(Note: The December book discussion (Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari) will still be held on the usual date, Saturday, Dec. 16.)























































































 





 





 








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