Sarah Smarsh has covered socioeconomic class, politics, and public policy for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Texas Observer, Pacific Standard, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and many other publications. A recent Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a former professor of nonfiction writing, Smarsh is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and related media narratives. She lives in Kansas. Heartland is her first book.
发表于2024-12-22
Heartland 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 2019 非虚构 贫穷 英文原版 美国 纪实 社会学 whitetrash
An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.
During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities, and she explores this idea as lived experience, metaphor, and level of consciousness.
Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up as the daughter of a dissatisfied young mother and raised predominantly by her grandmother on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, Heartland is an uncompromising look at class, identity, and the particular perils of having less in a country known for its excess.
在audible上听完了这个美国 “红脖子”家族三代的关于贫穷的故事
评分在audible上听完了这个美国 “红脖子”家族三代的关于贫穷的故事
评分还是蛮熟悉的场景,加之看过Hillbilly Elegy,没甚么感觉
评分又是一本讲white trash的书。作者自己的经历,非常中肯。
评分还是蛮熟悉的场景,加之看过Hillbilly Elegy,没甚么感觉
Heartland 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书