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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by
Sarah Smarsh
Jan. 5, 2020 - Jan. 6, 2020
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Smarsh, S. (2018). Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Scribner.
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constant reminders of what you don’t have
p.202
no house is truly secure
What we lost in stability, by way of our economic…
p.141
too good for the environment I’d been born into
Grandma was right: I did think I was too good for…
p.129
poverty was monetized to benefit the rich
When I was an adult, the Kansas legislature passe…
p.122
ill understood in concrete landscapes
President Dwight Eisenhower, a native of rural Ka…