Death by gentrification / i'm sick of pretending to give a shit about what whypeepo think / Notes of a native daughter / Dosas / American work / Fieldwork / For the ones who put their names on thew wall / Trash food / Some houses (various stages of dissolve) / Mobility / Youth from every quarter / Outside / White debt / Leander / Fault lines / We share the rain, and not much else / Blood brother / Hillsides and flatlands / Invisible wounds / How / Enough to lose / To the man asleep in our driveway who might be named Phil / Soup kitchen / Howlin' Wolf / Looking for a home / Visible city / Portion / Apartment 1G / Happy / A good neighbor is hard to find / Here in a state of tectonic tension / Once there was a spot / Hurray for losers / La ciudad mágica / American arithmetic / The worthless servant

In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people.