There Is No Place for Us Working and Homeless in America
- 22 Oct 2026
- 9781837268016
- £14.99
- 448 pp
- 129×198mm
- 13 Aug 2026
- 9781837268023
- £11.99
- 448 pp
In a few words
A Pulitzer prize-winner, this feat of reportage, analysis and storytelling focuses on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness among the so-called working poor
In a few words
A Pulitzer prize-winner, this feat of reportage, analysis and storytelling focuses on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness among the so-called working poor
[Goldstone] writes about a ruthless housing system that profits from people’s desperation and penalises them for being poor. I was moved by this book. I also felt enraged
Goldstone stitches together a textured and extraordinarily detailed narrative of [five families’] multiyear struggle to keep a roof over their heads. The effect is reminiscent of Random Family. [. . . ] There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness
[Goldstone] writes about a ruthless housing system that profits from people’s desperation and penalises them for being poor. I was moved by this book. I also felt enraged
Goldstone stitches together a textured and extraordinarily detailed narrative of [five families’] multiyear struggle to keep a roof over their heads. The effect is reminiscent of Random Family. [. . . ] There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE BERNSTEIN AWARD
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Washington Post, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness
There Is No Place For Us plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed. Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone follows parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. Each family aspires to provide a decent life for their children, and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.
By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place For Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes and consequences of the new American homelessness, and provides hope in the possibility of collective action to bring about structural change.
More about
the book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE BERNSTEIN AWARD
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Washington Post, Elle, New America, BookPage, Shelf Awareness
There Is No Place For Us plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed. Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone follows parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. Each family aspires to provide a decent life for their children, and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.
By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place For Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes and consequences of the new American homelessness, and provides hope in the possibility of collective action to bring about structural change.
I found this book devastating, but also so brilliantly executed
Emily Wilson
Country & TownhouseAn incredible feat . . . Stunning . . . A book like this ought to be a rallying cry, the 21st-century equivalent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Beautifully crafted . . . Revelatory and often heartbreaking . . . [Goldstone] has the clear eye and deft touch of a master storyteller. There Is No Place for Us reveals an America few of us know
Poignant . . . Through in-depth and often heart-rending accounts, Mr. Goldstone shows why [families] lack stable housing and face difficulties in acquiring it
An incredible feat . . . Stunning . . . A book like this ought to be a rallying cry, the 21st-century equivalent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Beautifully crafted . . . Revelatory and often heartbreaking . . . [Goldstone] has the clear eye and deft touch of a master storyteller. There Is No Place for Us reveals an America few of us know
Poignant . . . Through in-depth and often heart-rending accounts, Mr. Goldstone shows why [families] lack stable housing and face difficulties in acquiring it
Brian Goldstone’s stunning non-fiction debut, There Is No Place for Us, traces the downfall of the American worker to the fallout of the American Dream. . . . Magnificently stylistic. . . . [Reads like] a gripping novel
Brian Goldstone
View profileBrian Goldstone is a journalist whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the New Republic, California Sunday Magazine and Jacobin, among other publications. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University. In 2021, he was a National Fellow at New America. His first book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his family.
Brian Goldstone
View profileBrian Goldstone is a journalist whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the New Republic, California Sunday Magazine and Jacobin, among other publications. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University. In 2021, he was a National Fellow at New America. His first book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his family.
