Poverty


Poverty, by America
Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Sweetness in the Skin
And Then, Boom!
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
The Night Always Comes
The Floating Girls
10 Marchfield Square
Unsettled Ground
Last Summer on State Street
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
A Little Trickerie
Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Glass Castle
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Poverty, by America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Demon Copperhead
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
The Grapes of Wrath
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Down and Out in Paris and London
Free Lunch

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John Steinbeck
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. ...more
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Khaled Hosseini
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping he ...more
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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