In Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us, the author follows four women, Britt, Kara, Michelle and Celeste and a married couple, Maurice and Natalia. Everything is factual in this work except for the real names of these individuals. All have children, live in Atlanta, are Black and have been employed in low paying jobs since before the pandemic. All are intent on finding a permanent place to live with their families, but many factors make that dream a herculean task.

This work of nonfiction is heart breaking. All six of these individuals spend their days working, trying to find child care, searching for more ways to make more money, helping family members, phoning and meeting with government and nonprofit officials looking for a way to subsidize there rent, searching for better and/or cheaper housing, and trying to pay for rent and utilities with money they don’t have. And when the pandemic hits, life gets even tougher. There are sections in this meticulously researched work where I was literally exhausted reading about what their days were like. There were other portions where I had to stop reading because I was so upset learning what these families had to endure. There Is No Place for Us is a must read for those who care about the future of our nation and its citizens.