![]() ![]() It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. Jessica Bruders much-anticipated folluwp to NOMADLAND will grow out of a magnificently reported piece published in The Atlantic in April of this year. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). Bruder teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. She has written for Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. ![]() Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. Jessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on subcultures and the dark corners of the economy. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of people who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.From the beetroot fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy – one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. ![]()
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