“Masterful” - Kirkus (starred review)

“Transformative” - Booklist (starred review)

“Relentless” - Shelf Awareness

With The Rent Collectors, Jesse Katz has produced a deeply reported portrait of Los Angeles at its most complex and precarious. It’s the story of a street gang that charges “rent” to the largely undocumented vendors eking out a living on the sidewalks, the city that has long fined and even arrested those vendors, and a prison mafia that is taking its own cut of the gang’s revenues.

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