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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America Audiobook, by Jeff Hobbs Play Audiobook Sample

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

Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America Audiobook, by Jeff Hobbs Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: February 4, 2025
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Read By: Jeff Hobbs, Janina Edwards Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: February 4, 2025
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781797189062

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

16

Longest Chapter Length:

60:52 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

09 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

36:14 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

From the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in school amidst the devastating housing crisis.

In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America’s housing crisis through the real-life story of Janet Romero. This is Hobbs’s first book since The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace that focuses on a single character and her extraordinarily illuminating journey.

In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Janet 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, Janet works full time as a waitress yet remains unable to afford legitimate housing or qualify for government aid. All the while she strives to provide stability, education, loving memories, and college aspirations for her children even as they sleep in motels and in her car, living in fear of both her ex and the nation’s largest child welfare agency. Eventually Janet encounters Wendi Gaines, a recently trained social worker who decades earlier survived her own abusive marriage and housing crisis. Janet becomes one of Wendi’s first clients, and the relationship transforms them both.

Told from the perspectives of Janet, Wendi, and Janet’s teenaged son, Tyson Romero, Seeking Shelter is a powerful and urgent exploration of the issues 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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About Jeff Hobbs

Jeff Hobbs grew up in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale in 2002 with a BA in English language and literature. Hobbs spent three years traveling between New York and Tanzania, where he helped build the African Rainforest Conservancy. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Rebecca, and their dog, Noah.

About Jeff Hobbs

Janina Edwards, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a native of Chicago and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts acting program. Her 2016 performance of Voice of Freedom was a finalist for the Audie Award.