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Seeking Shelter
In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Evelyn and her children into the urban wilderness of Los Angeles, where she avoids the family crisis network that offers no clear pathway for her children to remain together and in a decent school. For the next five years, Evelyn works full time as a waitress yet remains unable to afford legitimate housing or qualify for government aid. All the while she strives to provide stability, education, loving memories, and college aspirations for her children even as they sleep in motels and in her car, living in fear of both her ex and the nation’s largest child welfare agency. Eventually Evelyn encounters Wendi Gaines, a recently trained social worker who decades earlier survived her own abusive marriage and housing crisis. Evelyn becomes one of Wendi’s first clients, and the relationship transforms them both.
Seeking Shelter is on Amazon’s list of the 20 best books of 2025 so far.
“Jeff Hobbs’ compassion and storytelling shines on every page, with an intimacy that won’t let you look away…This deeply moving story of a devoted mother striving to provide for her children will linger long after you’ve turned the last gut-punch of a page. It’s one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read. —Lindsay Powers, Amazon Editor
Seeking Shelter is a powerful and urgent exploration of the issues of homelessness, poverty, and education in America.
