Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession

While working to help his father’s small company “trash out”—enter and empty—foreclosed homes in Florida during the 2008 housing crash, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis.

Grounded in Florida and Reyes’s family history, and with character-driven investigations into the dark corners of ...