What readers think of Squeezed, plus links to write your own review.

This book had me riveted. It's the rarest of nonfiction tomes in that I couldn't stop reading. Just a few more pages…just a few more pages.

That said, it is emotionally exhausting to read. Even if you yourself are not financially squeezed, chances are pretty good you know people who are. Finding out what must go on behind their closed doors is heartbreaking—and frightening.

Written by Alissa Quart, this is a well-researched and spot-on explanation of why and how the middle class in the United States is being squeezed out of existence. And this isn't happening only to high school dropouts and people who may have loafed through college. It's happening to college professors with doctoral degrees, attorneys, journalists, and teachers, among others.

Find out:
• Why having a baby may place a middle-class couple in a financial downward spiral from which they may never recover;

• Why your child's geometry teacher may be grading tests and planning the next day's lessons between his trips driving for Uber;

• Why some day care centers now offer care 24 hours a day;

• Why so many people are drowning in student loan debt.

• Why you may lose your job to a robot.

With each of the reasons why families are being squeezed, Quart attempts to offer solutions. Some are more tenable than others. I don't fault her in this because the solutions to most of these problems are far bigger than something she can conjure. Rather, they go to the heart of who we are as a country—and what we intend to do about it.

This book is shocking, heartbreaking, and an absolute must-read for everyone.