{"product_id":"9781773240008","title":"Finding Home in the Promised Land: A Personal History of Homelessness and Social Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying conditions that could allow this to happen in a country like Canada. \u003ci\u003eFinding Home in the Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of her harrowing journey through the wilderness of social exile. Her Scottish great-great-grandmother Barbara's portrait opens the door into pre-Confederation Canada; Harris's own story lights our journey through 21st-century Canada. Harris asks how Canadians can ignore the obvious -- that trauma and poverty are inextricably linked. Why did Canada, a nation of exiles driven to create their own Promised Land accept first poorhouses, then soup kitchens, food banks, shelters, and a silent suffering class of working poor?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith insight and an understanding born of first-hand experience, Harris uncovers the sad truth that taxes and charitable gifts the prosperous among us pay to avoid looking at the poor fund a poverty industry that keeps the dispossessed in a thorny exile. But she also uncovers a path out of the bureaucratic wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135267815664,"sku":"9781773240008","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781773240008_p0.jpg?v=1763708783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781773240008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}