Heartland: a Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in
the Richest Country on Earth
By Sarah Smarsh
Publication Date:
September 18, 2018
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Sarah Smarsh grew up on a farm in Kansas within a cycle of
poverty, single mothers and violent and absent men. She worked hard to break the cycle and as a
college educated professor, she reflects back on the women in her family and
what they did to survive as they lived the same poverty-stricken lives as the
women before. I connected to this
memoir, as I have a vaguely similar backstory, and I think many people from the
flyover states will find something of themselves in this book. A minor
quibble is that it was oddly repetitive at times and I found myself paging back
to find that a story had been referenced before. I do think that this is the kind of book we
are going to see more and more of as the economic disparity in our country grow
more desperate. I received a digital ARC
of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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