There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Audiobook

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• There Is No Place for Us is a crucial, masterful book that will change the national conversation about homelessness. Brian Goldstone gives us a wrenching chronicle of what happens when the fact of a home cannot be taken for granted. Poignant and infuriating, his book reveals the tragic myths embedded in the stories we tell ourselves about working hard in America.

  — Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves

• There is No Place for Us is a spellbinding and unflinching portrait of five American families working full-time yet still unable to secure stable housing. Brian Goldstone reveals the brutal realities of a system—all too familiar now for so many Americans—in which hard work no longer guarantees us safety or dignity. The writing is as immersive as documentary. And be warned: this book will devastate you and then set your spirit ablaze.

  — Antonia Hylton, author of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

• There Is No Place for Us is a crucial, masterful book that will change the national conversation about homelessness. Brian Goldstone gives us a wrenching chronicle of what happens when the fact of a home cannot be taken for granted. Poignant and infuriating, his book reveals the tragic myths embedded in the stories we tell ourselves about working hard in America.

  — Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves

• There Is No Place for Us is a spellbinding and unflinching portrait of five American families working full-time yet still unable to secure stable housing. Brian Goldstone reveals the brutal realities of a system—all too familiar now for so many Americans—in which hard work no longer guarantees us safety or dignity. The writing is as immersive as documentary. And be warned: This book will devastate you and then set your spirit ablaze.

  — Antonia Hylton, author of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

• There Is No Place for Us is a spellbinding and unflinching portrait of five American families working full-time yet still unable to secure stable housing. Brian Goldstone reveals the brutal realities of a system—all too familiar now for so many Americans—in which hard work no longer guarantees us safety or dignity. The writing is as immersive as documentary. And be warned: This book will devastate you and then set your spirit ablaze.

  — Antonia Hylton, author of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

• There Is No Place for Us is a book of unusual power and range—encompassing all one needs to understand about the expanding housing crisis, which is utterly unnecessary. Each page is propelled by the integrity of Brian Goldstone’s careful labor, tracking the people who must fight an American madness, as the stakes keep getting raised. The facts are a devastation and a calling. Read this extraordinary book. If you’re lucky, you’ll be changed.

  — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family

• In this brilliant book, Brian Goldstone lays bare the hidden disaster of housing precarity among America’s low-wage workers, shattering assumptions about who becomes homeless and why. Through powerful storytelling, he depicts the abject unfairness of capitalism in the United States and reveals the despair and unpredictability that besieges the lives of the working poor. There Is No Place for Us brings it all out into the open. May it move you to act so that we, as a society, might finally shelter all who need it.

  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit

• Deeply reported and written with an empathy that brims from every page, There Is No Place for Us is an epic account of crippling inequity, capitalist predation, and inert bureaucracy. It is a tribute to Goldstone that he never, for a second, lifts his focus from the core of the story—the people.

  — Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

• Brian Goldstone’s blistering investigation into the true scope of America’s ballooning homelessness crisis beautifully depicts the tenacity and heart of several vulnerable families struggling to survive in a system that refuses to help them—or even to acknowledge them at all.

  — Roxanna Asgarian, author of We Were Once a Family

• [There Is No Place for Us] is an urgent indictment of the narrow definition of homelessness that leaves millions of people in jeopardy and disguises the true extent of the crisis that capitalism has created. Above all, it is a deeply researched, meticulously reported, and care-filled book.

  — Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes

• There Is No Place for Us is a crucial, masterful book that will change the national conversation about homelessness. Poignant and infuriating, his book reveals the tragic myths embedded in the stories we tell ourselves about working hard in America.

  — Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves

• There Is No Place for Us is a book of unusual power and range. Each page is propelled by the integrity of Brian Goldstone’s careful labor, tracking people who must fight an American madness, as the stakes keep getting raised. The facts are a devastation, and a calling. Read this extraordinary book. If you’re lucky, you’ll be changed.

  — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family

• In this brilliant book, Brian Goldstone lays bare the hidden disaster of housing precarity among America's low-wage workers, shattering assumptions about who becomes homeless and why. There Is No Place for Us brings it all out into the open. May it move you to act so that we, as a society, might finally shelter all who need it.

  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit

• Brian Goldstone has done something remarkable: distilled clearly, in compelling narrative form, so much of what has gone wrong in America since the 1970s. The heartbreaking brutality and inhumanity of the world he depicts will shock many readers—as it should. If you read one book this year—or this decade—it should be There Is No Place for Us.

  — Adelle Waldman, author of Help Wanted

• A spellbinding and unflinching portrait of five American families working full-time yet still unable to secure stable housing. The writing is as immersive as documentary. And be warned: this book will devastate you and then set your spirit ablaze.

  — Antonia Hylton, author of Madness

• Deeply reported and written with an empathy that brims from every page, There Is No Place for Us is an epic account of crippling inequity, capitalist predation, and inert bureaucracy. Brian Goldstone never, for a second, lifts his focus from the core of the story—the people. He has pulled off a rare and stunning narrative feat.

  — Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

• A crucial, masterful book that will change the national conversation about homelessness . . . Poignant and infuriating, [it] reveals the tragic myths embedded in the stories we tell ourselves about working hard in America.

  — Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves

• A profound reckoning with housing inequality and an intimate, never-pathologizing account of people working themselves to death . . . [This] is a deeply researched, meticulously reported, and care-filled book.

  — Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes

• Brian Goldstone’s blistering investigation into the true scope of America’s ballooning homelessness crisis beautifully depicts the tenacity and heart of several vulnerable families struggling to survive in a system that refuses to help them.

  — Roxanna Asgarian, author of We Were Once a Family

• [A] beautifully written work of heartbreaking journalism . . . Within these pages, people whose lives and labor have long been invisible are given the space to tell their stories.

  — Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell

• [A] beautifully written work of heartbreaking journalism . . . Within these pages, people whose lives and labor have long been invisible are given the space to tell their stories.

  — Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell

• This is a tremendous achievement in reporting, in narration, in emotional and intellectual understanding. Brian Goldstone’s book will stand with J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground and other works that tell the story of our country by telling the stories of our fellow citizens.

  — James Fallows, author of Our Towns

• A model of ethical journalism . . . [Goldstone] trains an empathetic eye on families that are struggling in an increasingly gentrified city that prizes property above people. . . . Make a place for this book alongside Jane Jacobs’ classic Death and Life of Great American Cities.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Deeply reported and written with an empathy that brims from every page, There Is No Place for Us is an epic account of crippling inequity, capitalist predation, and inert bureaucracy. . . . [Goldstone] has pulled off a rare and stunning narrative feat.

  — Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

• A tremendous achievement in reporting, in narration, in emotional and intellectual understanding. Brian Goldstone’s book will stand with J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground and other works that tell the story of our country by telling the stories of our fellow citizens.

  — James Fallows, author of Our Towns

• A model of ethical journalism . . . [Goldstone] trains an empathetic eye on families that are struggling in an increasingly gentrified city. . . . Make a place for this book alongside Jane Jacobs’ classic Death and Life of Great American Cities.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Harrowing . . . Goldstone weaves a richly detailed narrative of his subjects’ increasingly desperate struggles. . . . It’s a gripping, high-stakes account of America’s housing emergency.

  — Publishers Weekly

• There Is No Place for Us is a book of unusual power and range. Each page is propelled by the integrity of Brian Goldstone’s careful labor, tracking people who must fight an American madness, as the stakes keep getting raised. The facts are a devastation, and a calling.

  — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family

• In this brilliant book, Brian Goldstone lays bare the hidden disaster of housing precarity among America’s low-wage workers. . . . May it move you to act so that we, as a society, might finally shelter all who need it.

  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit

• Heartbreaking . . . Learning of the harsh obstacles of daily life for [the working homeless] will both distress and outrage any reader with an ounce of empathy.

  — Booklist