![]() ![]() ![]() Her informants are women and men in their sixties, seventies and eighties. And her companions not only open up to her, they befriend her.īruder is far younger than most of the Amazon CamperForce workers BLM and Forest Service campground managers carnival workers and beet harvest laborers with whom she speaks, eats, parties and sweats. ![]() She enters fully into the lives of the older itinerant workers she studies in “Nomadland.” She eats with them, sorrows with them - and she works alongside them in jobs that more often than not are physically exhausting and low pay. Jessica Bruder is not a dispassionate watcher. Too often, investigative journalism (especially of the lives of the disadvantaged) can leave the reader with mere shadows of that reality-as though the writer observed and reported through a safe lens of detached entitlement. "Nomadland" is the focus of this month’s Southwest Book Review by Mary Sojourner. Bruder is a pro at writing about the dark underbelly of the nation’s economy and the subcultures of people affected. " She chronicles the lives of older Americans living in campers and vans, trying to stay afloat after job loss, health problems and a deteriorating American Dream. Award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder went on the road to write her latest book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. ![]()
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