![]() ![]() Jessica Bruder embedded within this hidden in plain. We meet others, we meet depressing and challenging work environments, we meet jamborees where like-minded people come together. ![]() Here, Bruder follows mostly Linda, a woman in her mid-60s, on her quest to find ways to make ends meet. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Enter Nomadland, and all of that is turned on its head. A remarkable book New Yorker From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of. Read more the beetroot fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. The inspiration for the film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of people who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope. For three years she travelled around the country, getting to know them and often living like them, out of a van she purchased for this reason. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress Starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand & directed by Chloé Zhao ‘Sublimely written’ Sunday Times ‘Scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny)’ Rebecca Solnit Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy – one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. In Nomadland, author Jessica Bruder takes us into the lives of several modern-day nomads. Description for Nomadland: Film Tie-In Paperback. ![]()
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