“Families on the Edge is a gripping exploration of the way homelessness and its aftermath is experienced by families in a rural area of New England.”
—Ethos
“Carpenter-Song’s writing is lucid and evocative, which makes the book a good choice for undergraduate courses in medical anthropology, cultural psychiatry, psychological anthropology, and social work.”
—Medical Anthropology Quarterly
“Elizabeth Carpenter-Song’s Families on the Edge offers a gripping, tragic, and analytically powerful account of five families’ experiences of housing insecurity in rural New England. It fills an important gap in our local and national understanding of homelessness. It fundamentally challenges the theoretical and policy relevance of homogenizing these families’ experiences with those of the urban, unsheltered, marginalized, and frequently racialized people who comprise both the literature and public imagination.”
—Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry