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001			on1022688633
003			OCoLC
005			20181008020950.0
008			180212t20182018nyu 000 0aeng d
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019			_a1051039828
020			_a1501133098 _q(hardcover) : _c$26.00
020			_a9781501133091 _q(hardcover) : _c$26.00
035			_a(OCoLC)1022688633 _z(OCoLC)1051039828
043			_an-us-ks
092			_aSmarsh, S. _bS636
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSmarsh, Sarah, _eauthor. _9370982
245	1	0	_aHeartland : _ba memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth / _cSarah Smarsh.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_aix, 290 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aDuring 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 can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this is an uncompromising look at class, identity, and the particular perils of having less in a country known for its excess.
520			_a"During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, 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 examine the class divide in our country and 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. Born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side, Smarsh grew up in a family of laborers trapped in a cycle of poverty. Whether working the wheat harvest, helping on her dad's construction sites, or visiting her grandma's courthouse job, she learned about hard work. She also absorbed painful lessons about economic inequality. Through her experience growing up as the child of a dissatisfied teenage mother--and being raised predominantly by her grandmother on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita--she gives us a unique, essential look into the lives of poor and working-class Americans living in the middle of our country. 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. "--Dust jacket.
505	0		_aDear 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.
600	1	0	_aSmarsh, Sarah. _9370982
650		0	_aPoor _zKansas _vBiography. _9372946
650		0	_aWorking poor _zKansas _vBiography. _9372947
650		0	_aFarmers _zKansas _vBiography. _9372948
650		0	_aFarmers _zKansas _xEconomic conditions. _9372949
650		0	_aFarm life _zKansas. _9248879
651		0	_aKansas _vBiography. _9241846
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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