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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
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I dream of a world in which no child suffers for our country’s greed.
Sarah Smarsh • Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
2018 book Heartland was published, I heard from thousands of readers who were relieved and delighted to recognize in its pages their unsexy place, or a place much like it. The book is an intersectional critique of our ill-addressed socioeconomic class structure, my family’s rural poverty serving as a springboard to analyzing US history, policy and ... See more
Sarah Smarsh • From Kansas, with love: like it or not, my home defies stereotypes
Parenthood likewise forces an encounter with the illogic of the market: good fortune means getting to pay someone less than you make to do a job that’s harder and probably more important than your own.
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
Girlhood is big business. The ones who are best at it literally treat it as an occupation, modeling or taking suitably candid-looking pictures of themselves, recommending clothes and jewelry and books, going viral on TikTok. They’re performing a way of being that looks joyful, effortless, and adorable. It’s a performance that by definition has a sh... See more
consuming the girl
Forgoing the caricature of rurality as frighteningly remote and disconnected, Somebody Somewhere also nails the liminality of town and country, for many.