Is this the best the wealthiest nation on earth can do for those who've already done so much?” REBECCA SOLNIT, Hope in the Dark Nomadland is a testament both to the generosity and creativity of the victims of our modern-medieval economy, hidden in plain sight, and to the blunt-end brutality that put them there. “People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book. “This extraordinary book maps the chasm between what America wants to be and what it actually is.” KATHERINE BOO, New Yorker Praise for Nomadland "Stunning and beautifully written.brilliant and haunting.” ARLIE H OCHSCHILD, NYT Book Review
Anthony Lukas Book Prize + Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism FinalistĬhautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Selection New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable “Earthship” home, they have not given up hope. At the same time, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist, Linda May, and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy-one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. Finding that Social Security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.” In a secondhand van she names “Halen,” Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately.
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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