cover image Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America

Jonathan Kozol. Ballantine Books, $13.95 (261pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90339-1

To write this ``jolting firsthand report,'' Kozol spent months among the homeless, whose depressing stories, interwoven with his commentaries, tell of infant deaths, malnutrition, hunger, loss of dignity and desperation. ``This powerful volume,'' PW maintained, `` forces one to ask: `What are our national priorities?' '' Author tour. (Feb.)