Random Family

"Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s 'Random Family' is one of the best books I’ve ever read about what it’s like to be poor in America."

"Adrian Nicole LeBlanc does it in Random Family. George Packer does it in The Unwinding. Isabel Wilkerson does it in The Warmth of Other Suns."

"It would behoove the president to read “Random Family,” Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s searing masterpiece of relentless close-up journalism."

"It's so spicy, so riveting, so empathetic and devoted, so alive in the world as it actually is."

"Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s “Random Family”"

"Random Family follows two young Bronx, N.Y., women as they struggle over a decade with men, kids, drugs, poverty, and, very occasionally, money. It’s an astonishing, and astonishingly patient, piece of reportage; it’s also an important book about contemporary America, and it grips like a thriller."