A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the Pen/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner of the 2017 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismWinner of the Chicago Tribute Heartland PrizeNamed One of the Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review * The Boston Globe * The Washington Post * NPR * Entertainment Weekly * The New Yorker * Bloomberg * Esquire * Buzzfeed * Fortune * San Francisco Chronicle * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Politico * The Week * Bookpage * Kirkus Reviews * Amazon * Barnes and Noble Review * Apple * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * Booklist * Shelf AwarenessHarvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems.