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May 8, 2019 · Heartland. by Sarah Smarsh. reviewed by Erik Hage. Sarah Smarsh’s memoir is a paean to the white, rural poor of the Midwest, giving voice and testament to lives eked out in in what is sometimes unfairly dismissed as “flyover country.”.
“Heartland,” by Sarah Smarsh, is a memoir of family, a love letter to the child she never had as a teenager and an account of how poverty shapes a life without stability. It is a deeply researched account that follows four generations of her family – of young, single mothers across the windy plains of Kansas – and describes the economic ...
Sarah Smarsh is a fifth-generation Kansan, a daughter of the working class and a successful journalist still marked by the shame of growing up poor. In her memoir, “Heartland,” Smarsh shows us ...
For some, America’s cultural and political reckoning seemed to come out of nowhere. But as journalist Sarah Smarsh ’05SOA writes in her powerful, vitally relevant book Heartland, “You can go a very long time in the country without being seen.”.
After the story was published, Smarsh told her family that she would one day publish a full book about them. She has been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She has written for publications including the Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker.
Sep 18, 2018 · The author of “Heartland,” a National Book Award longlisted memoir about growing up poor in rural America, gives her views on politics, identity, and cultural appropriation. by shiqic September 18, 2018. ImagineGolf / Getty. Angela Chen | Longreads | September 2018 | 14 minutes (3,488 words)
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Jul 26, 2022 · A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth is a “deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight” ( New York Times Book Review ). Sarah Smarsh shares stories of her family in rural Kansas and her ...
