Books like Random family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

In Mumbai’s slums, families chase better lives as India’s prosperity rises, revealing the human side of global inequality.

The Warmth of Other Suns is a non‑fiction study of the Great Migration, tracing the journey of nearly six million African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970.

High‑school students in the Bronx unite through weekly poetry, each poem exposing their true selves and challenging the school’s hidden biases.

Sylvia Fraser's memoir chronicles her journey from amnesia to the harrowing revelation of a childhood of sexual abuse by her father.

A moving true account of a Chinese family split across continents, as Denise Chong traces her grandmother’s journey from concubine in China to tea‑house worker in Canada and reunites long‑lost siblings.

A harrowing memoir of a daughter’s struggle against a controlling father and a dysfunctional family, revealing the lasting impact of psychological and physical abuse.

Anthropologist's tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slum-dwelling Mexico City family tells about their lives. Once or twice in every generation a scientific work appears which has the immediacy and force of great literature. The Children of Sanchez is such a book. It brings us in touch with the lives of its subjects in such a way that the reader is drawn into their world as if he were reading a great novel. This is an intimate account of an actual family from the slums of Mexico City. The story they tell is in their own words. The reader learns not only what it is like to grow up in a one-room home in a slum tenement in the heart of a great modern city, but, insofar as the lives in this book may be generalized, about the culture of poverty throughout the world--the culture shared by 80% of the world's people. The lives of the Sanchez family reveal a world of violence and death, of suffering and brutality, of broken homes and the cruelty of the poor to the poor. But they reveal, too, an intensity of feeling and human warmth, a sense of individuality, a capacity for joy, a hope for a better life, a desire for sympathy and love, a readiness to share the little they possess, and the courage to carry on in the face of great adversity.--From publisher description.

A powerful, unvarnished chronicle of Rosa Lee Cunningham’s life and her family’s struggle with poverty, drug addiction, and urban hardship in Washington, D.C., as seen through the sustained journalistic eye of Leon Dash.