The Melancholia of Class A Manifesto for the Working Class

"This is a vital book, deeply personal and charged with the kind of wisdom and solidarity that only belongs to those who understand what it feels like to be overlooked and left behind." - Jim Gavin, creator of Lodge 49

"An unprecedented reckoning with class and poverty as it relates to creative life in the modern age. Cruz forges a merciful new footing to state what's long overdue: that many of us have been dying while we write, and that the sorrow of surviving poverty, if at all, is a grief finally named in this courageous and deeply true work." - Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous