Following the release of her debut book The Tears of Other People: A History and Memoir of Displacement in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, E. M. Ippolito presents her lived experience and research into the local trend of working-class displacement. From contemporary gentrification, to the red light district of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to its earliest English settlement in 1623, this history frames Portsmouth as a city defined by constant and ever-changing forms of targeted dispossession.