
Nomadland
Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Narrated by:
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Karen White
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By:
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Jessica Bruder
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.
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Enter Nomadland, and all of that is turned on its head. Here, Bruder follows mostly Linda, a woman in her mid-60s, on her quest to find ways to make ends meet. We meet others, we meet depressing and challenging work environments, we meet jamborees where like-minded people come together.
While Bruder's prose is sometimes lovely, and her depiction of the nomads is always gentle, I found the book to be somewhat frightening. Make no mistake: It's a good book. It's just that it plays upon my deepest fear of being one illness away from homelessness. (And by the way, the nomads are HOUSELESS! Don't tick them off!)
Karen White turns in a 50-50 performance as she always does (she butchered Daring Greatly; she shone in Nothing to Envy)--sometimes she's on target, but sometimes her delivery is dry and robotic.
Still, and engaging book. But it's kinda sorta too depressing to spend a whole credit on...
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What did you love best about Nomadland?
It showed me a world that I was unfamiliar with, camp workers at Amazon, camp ground hosts, Quartzite AZWhat was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
I was interested in the Amazon seasonal workers but it seemed the author spent too much time on it. There were a lot of repeated descriptions especially of the one in Fernley NV. I would have liked a broader picture of full time RVer.What three words best describe Karen White’s performance?
Her voice is a dead ringer for Samatha Bee which made it hard to disassociate from the comedian. I like Sam Bee but couldn't get that image out of my head to enjoy the book.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The author seemed determined to tie everything to the 2008 financial crash and show the trajectory of only a few characters. Certainly she met some middle and upper class people who were doing just fine and not living gas fill up to fill up and trying to make it on social security checks and minimum wage jobs. Maybe that was her point; to show the dark side of RV life.Any additional comments?
I admire her for putting in the road time and actually living in a van rather than flying in and being a "tourist" As my title says you have to by into the premise that RV life is bleak and not done by choice. Maybe I just WANT to think it is not that way.You Have to Buy the Premise to Enjoy It
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