Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"The book is called Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder and it was published in 2017. It was included in a list of “100 Notable Books of 2017” in the New York Times . The film Nomadland was written and directed by Chloé Zhao, released in 2020, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. So both considerable works. Bruder’s book started as a cover story for Harper’s Magazine . She created this book about low-income Americans, how they survive, how they travel from place to place, how they take seasonal employment. It’s been described as “engaging, highly relevant immersion journalism.” The spine is provided by a woman called Linda May. The book follows her travels until she eventually finds a place in the desert where some sort of home can be built. There’s a sense of somebody settling down at the end. Throughout the book, there are several other characters who the writer and Linda May encounter in their travels. One of the places they visit is a town called Empire in Nevada, formerly centered upon a gypsum plant that was closed in 2011."