Criminal of Poverty ─ Growing Up Homeless in America

"Tiny," aka Lisa Gray-Garcia (the founder of POOR Magazine), presents her family memoir growing poor in the United States, where being poor is a criminal act. She describes the experiences of three generations of poor women: her grandmother, "an Irish immigrant, teenage mother and battered woman in pre-New Deal patriarchal America;" her mother, "a mixed-race child surrendered to foster care, a survivor of abuse who tried for many years to escape her childhood torture until one day the struggle became too great"; and herself, who experience homelessness and gradually became a radically politicized anti-poverty activist. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)