Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
...[a] devastating, revelatory book.
What photographer Jacob Riis did for the tenement poor in How the Other Half Lives (1890) and what novelist Upton Sinclair did for stockyard workers in The Jungle (1906), journalist Bruder now does for a segment of today’s older Americans forced to eke out a living as migrant workers..
...an important if frustrating new work influenced by such classics of immersion journalism as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed.
...a compelling look at a weirdly camouflaged swath of society that’s more entwined around us than we realize.
In Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, writer Jessica Bruder is pursuing a moving target: the new class of Americans who have traded in real estate for 'wheel estate,' having lost their mortgages, their savings, and their dreams in the Great Recession or individual disasters, to become 'workampers'.
...[a] stunning and beautifully written book.
Take a fascinating look into this darker side of the U.S. economy in the wake of the Great Recession in the powerfully personal road trip, Nomadland.
The often desperate nomads build communities wherever they land, offering tips for overcoming common troubles, sharing food, repairing vehicles, counseling each other through bouts of depression, and establishing a grapevine about potential employers. Though very little about Bruder’s excellent journalistic account offers hope for the future, an ersatz hope radiates from within Nomadland: that hard work and persistence will lead to more stable situations. Engaging, highly relevant immersion journalism..
Tracing individuals throughout their journeys from coast to coast, Bruder conveys the phenomenon’s human element, making this sociological study intimate, personal, and entertaining, even as the author critiques the economic factors behind the trend..