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Sep 10, 2018 · Sept. 10, 2018. HEARTLAND. A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. By Sarah Smarsh. 290 pp. Scribner. $26. Sarah Smarsh’s memoir, “Heartland,” opens with a ...
Jul 26, 2022 · Transcript. In today’s podcast, Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, which is a 2018 National Book Award finalist and a 2022-2023 NEA Big Read title. Smarsh discusses her family background in rural Kansas, intergenerational poverty, and the difficulty of ...
A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Finalist for the National Book Award, Kirkus Prize and more. Recommended by President Barack Obama, Melinda Gates, Sarah Jessica Parker and literary critics around the world. Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth-generation Kansas farm girl, the child of a carpenter and a teen mom.
Sep 16, 2018 · A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. By Sarah Smarsh. Purchase. Sarah Smarsh grew up in rural Kansas — the fifth generation to farm the same land, riding ...
Nov 30, 2018 · Sarah Smarsh's memoir Heartland is possessed of a fierce feminism, though one enacted by women likely to chafe at that word. Heartland is also possessed of a fierce feminism, though one enacted by ...
Sep 13, 2018 · Growing up among the wheat and milo fields of rural Kingman County — and for a few years in Wichita — Sarah Smarsh knew she’d write a book someday. “I was a precocious little kid, going ...
Oct 13, 2020 · — The New Yorker “As Sarah Smarsh notes in ‘ She Come by It Natural,’ her brilliant 2020 book-length meditation on Ms. Parton, ‘Several of my friends — white, Black and Latina, with disparate class origins among them — commented in the weeks surrounding the 2016 election that Parton was a balm of sorts, a spiritual leader when ...
- Sarah Smarsh
