Poverty by America

I experienced this kind of long tail depression after leaving Milwaukee. It wasn't necessarily because of the poverty I saw, it was that combined with this kind of new privilege that was all around me. So I took a job in Cambridge, Massachusetts and I think that dissonance, seeing bottles of wine served at faculty dinners that could pay my friend's rent for a month back in Milwaukee. But I realized that before reading your book, I don't think I understood what it's like on a daily basis to be poor in America. And I think I understand it better now.