Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder

Amazon had wall-mounted dispensers offering free over-the-counter painkillers in the warehouse.

Leave California and the streets of San Diego where you are considered homeless. Remember in the desert or the forest you are camping.

“I 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,” reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.