Nomadland, Jessica Bruder
Nomadland, Jessica Bruder
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Nomadland
Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Bestseller

Author: Jessica Bruder

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Jessica Bruder

Jessica Bruder is the author of Nomadland, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Choice and a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. It was adapted for a film starring Frances McDormand and David Straithairn, due for release from Fox Searchlight in 2020. She is also the author of Burning Book and writes for WIRED, New York Magazine, Harper's Magazine, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Guardian, among other publications. She is a New America fellow, has held residencies at Bellagio, MacDowell, and Yaddo, and teaches at Columbia Journalism School. She lives in Brooklyn with a spaniel named Max and more plants than you can shake a leafy stick at.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yun on February 14, 2025

Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope. For many years now, a growing population of Americans have been forced to live in mobile homes and vehicles due to their inability to make mortgages or rent. These Americans, made up mostly of the e......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on January 06, 2024

Chloé Zhao's oscar-winning masterpiece was inspired by this book which instigated me to pick this one for reading. It tells us the story of senior citizens who lost everything after the economic collapse in 2008. They decided to live on the move as modern-day nomads in RV's, vans, and whatever v......more