Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America - Hardcover

"A vivid prose stylist, Quart makes powerfully real what happens when those who were once middle class can now only window shop for the American Dream. She also offers crucial collective plans to get us out of our anguishing binds."--Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

"Alissa Quart is a modern James Agee. Squeezed gets deep inside the increasingly perilous financial lives of American families showing that they are collateral damage of our disappearing government. A damning, necessary and intensely vital book."--Helaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

"Quart deftly chronicles the plight of Americans confronting the dangerous rise of Middle Class financial instability. Squeezed is journalism at its best: exploratory, visceral, and searching for answers. An important work to which attention should--and must--be paid."--David Corn, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

"Brilliant--a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class's fall while also offering solutions and hope."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

"Profound, a sweeping, blistering portrait of hard-working people from all walks of life. It's a rousing wakeup call that also points the way forward to a more equitable, expansive future."--Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

"What Alissa Quart does so beautifully is weave together textured, compelling portraits of individual families with big ideas. Read this important book to understand the challenges your own family faces in parenting, housing, planning for the future--and read it to find out what to do about them!"--Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex and Don't Call Me Princess

"Quart's investigation, written with the elegance of a literary novel, forces us to examine the grave consequences of an economic structure that has crushed the very people it claims are at the heart of the American dream."--Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars

"Vital to understanding American life today."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Squeezed, like Nickel and Dimed . . . is worth reading if you're invested in better understanding poverty in America."--BITCH, "15 Books Feminists Should Read in June"

"[Quart's] ambitious, top-tier reportage tells a powerful story of America today."--Publishers Weekly