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020			_a1501133098 _q(hardcover)
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020			_z9781501133114 _q(ebook)
020			_z9781925713633
035			_a(OCoLC)1022688633 _z(OCoLC)1051039828
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050	0	0	_aHD8073.S637 _bA3 2018
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100			_aSmarsh, Sarah, _eauthor. _942692
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.
260			_aNew York : _b Scribner, _c2018.
300			_a290 pages ; _c22 cm
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.
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.
600		0	_aSmarsh, Sarah. _942693
650		0	_aPoor _zKansas _vBiography. _942694
650		0	_aWorking poor _zKansas _vBiography.
650		0	_aFarmers _zKansas _vBiography. _942695
650		0	_aFarmers _zKansas _xEconomic conditions. _942696
650		0	_aFarm life _zKansas. _942697
655		0	_919965 _aBiography. _2fast
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