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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth:
"Absolutely stunning. It has the capacity to open hearts and minds and introduce people like me to a world we have never known. In so doing, judgment and criticism of those who face economic challenge and diminished opportunity can be lessened by t..."
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth:
"Sarah Smarsh’s memoir abt growing up poor, mostly in the rural communities outside Wichita, is part narrative, part treatise on gender and class. She addresses her thoughts to an inner voice (I’ll say no more, except that it’s not a silly device)...."
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth:
"Every person in America should read this book. Ms. Smarsh has shared her moving story of one woman's struggle to claim her place in the world by not falling through the cracks in the heartland of her upbringing. She does so with the backdrop of Am..."
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth:
"I deeply appreciate books that combine personal narrative and social/political context. This is a powerful memoir and narrative essay about growing up in working class white family. It is compassionate and nuanced description of family and a movin..."
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“But the American Dream has a price tag on it. The cost changes depending on where you’re born and to whom, with what color skin and with how much money in your parents’ bank account. The poorer you are, the higher the price. You can pay an entire life in labor, it turns out, and have nothing to show for it. Less than nothing, even: debt, injury, abject need.”
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
“Society’s contempt for the poor becomes the poor person’s contempt for herself.”
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
“To live alone in the country means isolation within isolation.”
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
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