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Sep 18, 2018 · Growing up working-class white on the Kansas plains, Smarsh enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but witnessed the hideous legacy of poverty in her relatives’ untreated illnesses, unsafe job conditions, abusive marriages, and addictions to everything from cigarettes to opioids.
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Sep 3, 2019 · An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.*.
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Sep 18, 2018 · During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor.
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Jul 26, 2023 · Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth. "During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor.
“In a memoir written with loving candor, the daughter of generations of serially impoverished Kansas wheat farmers and working-poor single mothers chronicles a family’s unshakeable belief in the American dream and explains why it couldn’t help but fail them.”
Oct 15, 2018 · ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION. An eye-opening, topical, and moving memoir of one woman’s experience of working-class...
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. *Finalist for the National Book Award**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller*...
