Abundance by Jakob Guanzon

This book is achingly sad to read. It opens with father and son being evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a job interview tomorrow. The chapters of the book are entitled with the sum total of the money that they have--it is never much, occasionally it is nothing, and rarely do they have enough for a week. It is a gut wrenching story about poverty that is very well told. Deserving of its presence on the long list for the National Book Award for Fiction.