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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

By Jessica Bruder

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton Company
Year
2017
ISBN
039324931X, 9780393249316
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
61 MB (64112236 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
273\284
Time added
2019-03-30 22:08:48

Description

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.

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