Part memoir, part how-to manual for being poor, it shows just how beautifully human and amazing we ALL are, even those that the media and the educational system and the judicial system have taught people with with degrees and jobs (like myself) to mistrust and to disdain. Criminal of Poverty shares the horrors, heartache, and occasional sanity saving humor of life in poverty and one family's journey transcending it. It's a miracle that this book exists. I'd ask high school teachers to consider assigning this to their students.