Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth /
During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty c...
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New York :
Scribner,
2018
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Dear August
- A penny in a purse
- The body of a poor girl
- A stretch of gravel with wheat on either side
- The shame a country could assign
- A house that needs shingles
- A working-class woman
- The place I was from