PAGES OF
CHANGE
a platform to explore impactful literature and contribute to the broader conversation about youth homelessness, coffee justice, and community.
Pages of Change: A Wildflyer Book Club is a platform to explore impactful literature and contribute to the broader conversation about youth homelessness. Wildflyer Coffee aims to create a space through this initiative where community members can come together, learn, and actively participate in addressing this critical issue.
We choose a book twice a year that focuses on poverty, housing instability, personal stories, and ways to address homelessness. We meet at the Minneapolis Café on the third Saturday of the month for two hours (10 AM - 12 PM) for discussion, coffee, and pastries.
Upcoming dates are: September 19, October 18, November 21.
Fall 2026:
There Is No Place For Us
Working and Homeless in America
There Is No Place for Us explores the growing crisis of the working homeless—people who work full-time yet cannot afford a stable place to live.
In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless.
Through intimate storytelling, Goldstone reveals the human cost of skyrocketing rents, low wages, and displacement, while examining the systems that have created America’s new homelessness crisis.
BOOK CLUB REGISTRATION IS Open
FROM CARLEY:
“We believe in the power of storytelling to create awareness and inspire change. By delving into the narratives of those with lived experience in coffee, experiencing homelessness, and working with community, we hope to encourage empathy and understanding within our community.”