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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE BERNSTEIN AWARD
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Washington Post, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness

There Is No Place For Us plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed. Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone follows parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. Each family aspires to provide a decent life for their children, and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.

By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place For Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes and consequences of the new American homelessness, and provides hope in the possibility of collective action to bring about structural change.

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[Goldstone] writes about a ruthless housing system that profits from people’s desperation and penalises them for being poor. I was moved by this book. I also felt enraged * * New York Times Book Review * * Goldstone stitches together a textured and extraordinarily detailed narrative of [five families’] multiyear struggle to keep a roof over their heads. The effect is reminiscent of Random Family. [. . . ] There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness * * Washington Post * * I found this book devastating, but also so brilliantly executed — EMILY WILSON * * Country & Townhouse * * An incredible feat . . . Stunning . . . A book like this ought to be a rallying cry, the 21st-century equivalent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle * * Nation * * Beautifully crafted . . . Revelatory and often heartbreaking . . . [Goldstone] has the clear eye and deft touch of a master storyteller. There Is No Place for Us reveals an America few of us know * * New York Times Review of Books * * Poignant . . . Through in-depth and often heart-rending accounts, Mr. Goldstone shows why [families] lack stable housing and face difficulties in acquiring it * * Wall Street Journal * * Brian Goldstone’s stunning non-fiction debut, There Is No Place for Us, traces the downfall of the American worker to the fallout of the American Dream. . . . Magnificently stylistic. . . . [Reads like] a gripping novel * * Rolling Stone * *