Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder

Lights burn late into the night. The same calculations get performed again and again, over and over, through exhaustion and sometimes tears. Wages minus grocery receipts. Minus medical bills. Minus credit card debt. Minus utility fees. Minus student loan and car payments. Minus the biggest expense of all: rent.

am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain

than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops,”