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In a gripping and deeply reported book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, Brian Goldstone, plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them 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.

Goldstone will be in conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.