Poverty Safari - Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Evicted, the Orwell Prize-winner and Sunday Times bestseller that J. K. Rowling has called "savage, wise, and witty . . . It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful, or necessary book."
Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastations firsthand. He grew up in a community where violence was a form of currency and has lived through addiction, abuse, and homelessness. He knows why people from deprived communities feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain . . .
So he invites you to come along on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. His vivid, visceral, and cogently argued book-part memoir and part polemic-takes us inside the experience of extreme poverty and its stresses to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome.
Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it...