Books about growing up poor
Popular Poverty Books
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It's Metafilter's 20th anniversary! To celebrate, scan some cats or help fund Mefi! Books about growing up poor in the U. Any ethnicity or cultural group, although I am primarily interested in relatively contemporary narratives, or later, more or less. Where I'm coming from: I grew up probably lower-middle-class though these things are kind of difficult to assess and attended a very fancy college on full scholarship. I'm feeling both out of touch with where I came from and searching for common expressions of my experience, both my experience as a kid and of the growing out of poorness, since I'm on a path that could lead to being at least middle-class if I want to be. I'm also interested in gaining a better understanding of the context, being able to better place my experience within the broader economic system in the U.
Image Source. What causes poverty? And what can be done about it? Social scientists, researchers and even novelists fiction have tackled the subject, but poverty, as we all know is a world-wide ages-old problem that is extensive and complex. So what is one to do?
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Books shelved as poverty: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Evicted: Poverty There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other.
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