"It’s so easy to summarize a life in a single sentence, but that is essentially true. My father worked cars in Detroit, then he lost his job and the limited benefits we had. My mom got a bar job, but we couldn’t afford the house, had to rent a trailer. The tap water was poison, and when Dad got sick, we had no money to look after him. There was no healthcare; we couldn’t afford a doctor or hospital, so we watched him waste away, eaten from the inside.