Off the Books

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Off the Books is written by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674257375 (ISBN 10) and 9780674257375 (ISBN 13).

Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, a rich portrait of a community, and a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America.