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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America

Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America

Jeff Hobbs

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ISBN: 9781668034828

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Publication Date: 2/4/25

Binding: Hardcover

Age Range: -

Grade Range: NA-NA

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Language: English

BISAC: Social Science, Poverty & Homelessness, History, Social History, Biography & Autobiography, and Cultural & Regional

Related Subjects: Homeless families, California, Los Angeless, Working mothers, Children of working mothers, Working poor, and Public welfare

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker

In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic" (Los Angeles Times) story that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in school amid the devastating housing crisis--from the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace.

In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Evelyn and her children into the urban wilderness of Los Angeles, where she avoids the family crisis network that offers no clear pathway for her children to remain together and in a decent school. For the next five years, Evelyn works full time as a waitress--yet remains unable to afford legitimate housing or qualify for government aid. All the while, she delivers her children to school every day and strives to provide them with loving memories and college aspirations. Eventually Evelyn encounters Wendi, a recently trained social worker who, decades earlier, survived her own relationship trauma and housing crisis. Evelyn becomes one of Wendi's first clients, and the relationship transforms them both.

Told from the perspectives of Evelyn, Wendi, and Evelyn's teenaged son Orlando, Seeking Shelter is a "remarkably vivid and...deeply empathetic" (Los Angeles Times) exploration of homelessness, poverty, and education in America--a must-read for anyone interested in understanding not just social inequality and economic disparity in our society but also the power of a mother's love and vision for her kids.

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