RaveRolling StoneStunning ... Building his book upon a sturdy web of narrative detail and propulsive storytelling, Goldstone, a journalist trained as an anthropologist, follows five Black families in Atlanta as their full-time jobs and dreams of upward mobility are interrupted by a crushing inability to keep themselves housed ... Despite how There Is No Place For Us reflects its magnificently stylistic impression of a gripping novel—punchy chapters that squeeze the spirit of its characters through the wringer of a punishing plot—readers will find no profound arc of change in protagonist or circumstance. Upon each final word on the page, the families arguably suffer just as badly (if not worse) than when we first meet them.
