Families on the Edge
Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them.Families on the Edge is an ethnographic portrait of families in rural and small-town New England who are often undercut by the very systems that are set up to help them. In this book, author and medical anthropologist Elizabeth Carpenter-Song draws on a decade of ethnographic research to chart the s...