"Brilliant--a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class's fall while also offering solutions and hope." - Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed "Quart captures how middle-class American families are struggling to attain the standard of living once enjoyed by their parents. [She] argues that higher earners, like most Americans, contend with income disparity and the extreme wealth enveloping metro regions." - The American Conservative "Puts plain the economic predicament of the middle class in eloquent and heart-wrenching vividness." - Electric Literature "Squeezed is at its absolute best when Quart combines her excellent reporting, rich with the perspective of that 'Middle Precariat', with a willingness to more openly and sharply decry the structural conditions that are giving way to such misery." - PopMatters "Lucidly recounts . wrenching stories of economic hardship, while meticulously deconstructing some of the prevailing myths about middle-class life in the United States .

Squeezed stands out for its insightful analysis of class dynamics in the United States." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "A powerful book. The color of your collar, or your red or blue state, doesn't matter. Quart reveals in this work that we're in this together." - Martha's Vineyard Times "Squeezed captures well the toxic combination of American individualism and the disrupted evolution of particular professions that has left millions of millennials in a more fragile financial condition than they expected would be their lot in life." - The Washington Post "Squeezed captures the dazed uncertainty of a post-recession generation of would-be parents for whom stagnant wages and ever-rising housing costs make them can't-be ones.Quart [has] a knack for immersive, in-depth reporting, as well as an often-bruised sense of unlikely optimism." - Bitch Magazine "Eloquent and passionate .

In deeply etched portraits of struggling professionals, Quart evokes how soaring costs and hostile social policy have trapped middle-class families in quicksands of debt and emotional stress." - The Forward "[Quart] shares familiar stories of economic frustration as well as hard evidence for the causes of it. It's an often tough but deeply empathetic call to action, one that exists in the real world of family, work, debt and even dreams." - Salon "On the day that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accomplished her remarkable victory in the Democratic primary . a new book arrived, as if by cosmic fiat, to help explain the emerging realignments of the political order: Squeezed." - Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times "The issue is overwhelmingly structural and social, not individual or moral. We haven't failed; Capitalism has failed us. As Quart reminds her reader--and as every story in the book is meant to illustrate--the economic bind we find ourselves in cannot be solved by personal discipline or better financial decisions.

" - New York Times Book Review "An eye-opening look at the forces that make it harder than ever for the middle class to survive." - People "A disciplined journalist, Quart [frames] her facts and figures with unsettling personal stories of financial ruin. What stays with you is the precariousness and stress to which today's capitalism subjects millions of even relatively privileged people." - Plough.