What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System

"Kristin Collier, like millions of other American students, funded her college education in part with loans. But she was shocked when she first saw her credit report – it listed more than $200,000 in debts, mostly for private student loans that Collier did not take out herself. In What Debt Demands, Collier braids her personal experience of familial identity theft and fraudulent debt together with a broader reckoning with how being saddled with debt impacts every aspect of a person’s life, and how banks, loan servicers and the federal government benefit from borrowers’ suffering. Student debtors especially will find sympathy and solidarity in this book, which takes the dysfunctional American student loan system to task."