Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jessica Bruder ,
Karen White
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Imprint: HighBridge Audio
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 14.70cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781665143141
ISBN 10: 1665143142
Publication Date: 26 September 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""[A] devastating, revelatory book."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""[A] powerhouse of a book...in the best immersive-journalism tradition...Visceral and haunting reporting."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Engaging, highly relevant immersion journalism."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Important, eye-opening journalism."" -- ""Minneapolis Star Tribune"" ""Stunning and beautifully written...Brilliant and haunting."" -- "" New York Times Book Review"""
[A] devastating, revelatory book. -- Washington Post [A] powerhouse of a book...in the best immersive-journalism tradition...Visceral and haunting reporting. -- Booklist (starred review) Engaging, highly relevant immersion journalism. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Important, eye-opening journalism. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune Stunning and beautifully written...Brilliant and haunting. -- New York Times Book Review
Author Information
Jessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on subcultures and the dark corners of the economy. She has written for Harper's, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. Karen White is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of more than fifteen novels, including The Time Between, On Folly Beach, and the Tradd Street series. A two-time recipient of the National Readers' Choice Award, Karen has been nominated multiple times for the coveted RITA Award. She has also been named twice as a finalist for the SIBA Fiction Book of the Year. Karen lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two children.
