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   Is Heartland a good book?

   • "A deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight, Heartland is one of a growing number of important works – including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville – that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline. . . .

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   Is Heartland worth reading?

   • Heartland is a striking book, not without its challenges to the reader, but one that I ultimately found rewarding to read in short bursts of 10 to 20 pages at a time. It’s worthwhile for anyone interested in what it’s really like to be poor in America. “My life has been a bridge between two places: the working poor and ‘higher’ economic classes.

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   Should I read heartland?

   • Read Heartland if you want a more accurate picture. If you’re thinking of writing your memoir about class and poverty to your not-yet-born/never-to-be-born daughter ’August’ my advice is – don’t. It’s weird and unneccessarily distracting. (3.5) If you were a fan of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, then Heartland deserves to be on your radar too.

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   Should I read heartland or Hillbilly Elegy?

   • Heartland explores why even if some people do leave poverty, most don't, why the pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps narrative is not a response to the behemoth of class oppression and social disdain that working people face every day. Don't read Hillbilly Elegy to "understand middle America." Read Heartland if you want a more accurate picture.

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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.”

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   Sep 10, 2018 · In “Heartland,” Sarah Smarsh offers a cleareyed account of hardscrabble life on the Great Plains — a pattern that in her family goes back generations.

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   Sep 18, 2018 · by Sarah Smarsh (Author) 4.2 2,270 ratings. Editors' pick Best History. See all formats and editions. *Finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize*. *Instant New York Times Bestseller*. *Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*.

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   Sep 18, 2018 · Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Sarah Smarsh. 3.76. 15,309 ratings2,363 reviews. 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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   In her memoir, “Heartland,” Smarsh shows us through the fate of her own family how the working class became the working poor. She takes us through the welfare cuts of the Reagan administration ...

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   Sep 18, 2018 · Journalist Smarsh explores socio-economic class and poverty through an account of her low-income, rural Kansas–based extended family. In her first book, addressed to her imaginary daughter—the author, born in 1980, is childless by choice—the author emphasizes how those with solid financial situations often lack understanding about ...

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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”.*.