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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?
Growing up on a small family farm in Kansas “left me forever in mind of the animals that society consumes and the workers who spend their lives among them,” writes @sarah_smarsh. “It also left me rageful toward industries that devalue both.” Throughout her childhood, Sarah writes, she and her family “worked the land and killed animals so that... See more
instagram.comThe Good Enough Job , journalist Simone Stolzoff traces how work has come to dominate Americans’ lives—and why we find it so difficult to let go. Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other workers across the American economy, Stolzoff exposes what we lose when we... See more
Forgoing the caricature of rurality as frighteningly remote and disconnected, Somebody Somewhere also nails the liminality of town and country, for many.