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Nomadland

by Jessica Bruder
Karen White
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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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Publisher: HighBridge Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781681687193
  • File size: 287095 KB
  • Release date: September 26, 2017
  • Duration: 09:58:06

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781681687193
  • File size: 287111 KB
  • Release date: September 26, 2017
  • Duration: 10:04:02
  • Number of parts: 11
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Politics Sociology Nonfiction

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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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Politics Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    HighBridge
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781681687193
    File size: 287095 KB
    Release date: September 26, 2017
    Duration: 09:58:06

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781681687193
    File size: 287111 KB
    Release date: September 26, 2017
    Duration: 10:04:02
    Number of parts: 11

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
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    English
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