Poverty, by America but lately she's unable to

but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back

of exploitation and strength of will

Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine's 100 Best English-Language Novels

a reclusive

completely convincing and often very frightening

Poverty, by America but lately she's unable to#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Public Library, Esquire, California Review of Books, She