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All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A beautiful exposition of home and what it means. Stunning' BOLU BABALOLA By the age of twenty-five journalist Kieran Yates had lived in twenty different houses across the country, from council estates in London to car showrooms in rural Wales. And in that time, between a series of evictions, mouldy flats and bizarre house-share interviews, the reality of Britain's housing crisis grew more and more difficult to ignore. In prose that sparkles with humour and warmth, Yates charts the heartbreaks and joys of a life spent navigating the chaos of the housing system. She exposes the issues underpinning the crisis, from the state's neglect of social housing to the rental rat race, and the disproportionate toll these take on the most marginalised in society. Drawing on interviews with tenants across the country and the stories behind our interiors, she explores the unexpected ways we can fight back - finding beauty in the wreckage of a broken system, friendships in cramped housing conditions, and home even in the most fragile circumstances. All the Houses I've Ever Lived In is at once a rallying cry for change and a love letter to home in all its forms. 'I read this in two sittings . . . so incisive it's hard to put down' PANDORA SYKES 'Moving and urgent' LAURA BATES 'A powerful, personal and intricate tour of our housing system … exposing who it works for and who it doesn't' BELL RIBEIRO-ADDY MP 'Skewers the housing crisis with clear-sighted fury. Yates manages the unthinkable: she makes the housing crisis funny, or at least as funny as it can get'i
Kieran Yates (Author), Kieran Yates (Narrator)
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Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors. How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go 'home' to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick 'Other'? Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be 'other' in a country that doesn't seem to want you, doesn't truly accept you - however many generations you've been here - but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms. Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants - job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees - until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and - most importantly - real.
Nikesh Shukla (Author), Bim Adewunmi, Chimene Suleyman, Coco Khan, Daniel York Loh, Darren Chetty, Himesh Patel, Inua Ellams, Kieran Yates, Miss L, Musa Okwonga, Nikesh Shukla, Nish Kumar, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Riz Ahmed, Sabrina Mahfouz, Salena Godden, Sarah Sahim, Varaidzo, Vera Chok, Vinay Patel, Wei Ming Kam (Narrator)
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