Chandler Museum Book Club: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder

300 South Chandler Village Drive,Chandler AZ 85226

18 July, 2023

Description

Join the Chandler Museum Book Club! Staff at Chandler Museum and Chandler Public Library have come together to choose a mix of fiction and non-fiction that expand on topics from the exhibition, Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler. Whether you've been following along since the start or are curious to read this final book on the topic, join us to make connections between the transient workers in Bruder's Nomadland and the migrants heading west during the Dust Bowl era. Connect with other readers during in-person discussions led my Museum Staff Kristine Clark and Librarian Anbolyn Potter. --- About Nomadland by Jessica Bruder: "From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope." --- Want to know more? Email our Community Engagement Specialist at [email protected]