البحث عن مأوى: أم عاملة وأطفالها وقصة التشرد في أمريكا

This novel was chosen as the best book of the year by The New Yorker magazine. Like Displaced and Invisible Child, this novel offers a “deeply gripping... and deeply moving story” (Los Angeles Times) about a single mother of six in Los Angeles who courageously struggles to keep her family together and put her children in school in the midst of a devastating housing crisis. This novel is written by the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. In 2018, poverty and domestic violence drove Evelyn and her children to live in the suburbs of Los Angeles, avoiding a family support network that offered them no clear path to staying together and attending a decent school. For the next five years, Evelyn worked full-time as a waitress, but was unable to afford decent housing or qualify for government assistance. Throughout this period, she drove her children to school every day and strived to provide them with beautiful memories and help them achieve their university ambitions. Eventually, she met Evelyn Weende, a newly graduated social worker who decades earlier had survived emotional trauma and a housing crisis. Evelyn becomes one of Wendy's first clients, and this relationship changes their lives together. Told from the perspectives of Evelyn, Wendy, and Evelyn's teenage son Orlando, Seeking Shelter is a "strikingly vivid and...deeply sympathetic" ( Los Angeles Times ) exploration of the issues of homelessness, poverty, and education in America, and is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand not only social inequality and economic disparity in our society, but also the power of a mother's love and vision for her children.