I can survive Amazon.' But you also ache for the ones without even this option, who don’t even merit a mention. Journalist Bruder (Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man, 2007) expands her remarkable cover story for Harpers into a book about low-income. You ache for the Gulf War veteran who tells Bruder, 'I survived the Army. These omissions don’t doom the book but they do mark it. Migrant workers who self identify as 'workampers' have hit the road with vans. At the steering wheel of her Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo is a silver. Not to mention that in the light of the death of Philando Castile, among others. Bruder chronicles an older generation that has turned to a nomadic lifestyle following the Great Recession of 2008. Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. She writes that 'there is hope on the road' - a blinkered view in 2017, after the passage of Arizona SB 1070, which required law enforcement to request the immigration papers of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally (portions of the bill have since been overturned). This book club is held in partnership with the. More than most, it’s able to comfortably contain various contradictions. This month we will be discussing Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. Nomadland is part of a fleet of recent books about the gig economy. an important if frustrating new work influenced by such classics of immersion journalism as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed.
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