This stirring work takes readers on a heartbreaking, illuminating, and inspiring journey into the homes and lives fo the 16 percent who live below the poverty threshold.

Author Biography

Kenan Heise is an award-winning author and journalist as well as an inductee into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. A retired reporter, columnist, and staff writer for the Chicago Tribune, he served for 17 years as the editor of the "Action Line" column and for 15 years as the chief obituary writer. He is the author of 25 books, including He Writes About Us and They Speak for Themselves: Interviews with the Destitute of Chicago. He lives in Chicago.