Downwardly Mobile: Before Helicopter Parents and Satellite Radio

Downwardly Mobile is a data-supported, sociopolitical memoir that chronicles one family's devastating fall from riches to rags. Set in suburban Chicago, it follows a well-resourced white family whose lives unravel after concurrent job losses, multiple insurance-denied medical claims, and the fallout from the 2008-09 market crash strip away their life savings, leaving them on the jagged edge of homelessness.

As the years pass and stable employment remains out of reach, rising taxes further er...