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

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

In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "moving, real-life saga" (The New Yorker) that follows...
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Author: Jeff Hobbs
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America by Hobbs, Jeff

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

$45.48
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America by Hobbs, Jeff

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

$45.48
Author: Jeff Hobbs
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "moving, real-life saga" (The New Yorker) 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.

Author: Jeff Hobbs
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.38w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9781668034828


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2024 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2024
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2025
Booklist 01/01/2025 pg. 8

About the Author
Jeff Hobbs is the New York Times bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award in Biography, was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal in nonfiction, and was made into the 2024 film Rob Peace. He is also the author of Show Them You're Good and Children of the State. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.
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