Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Jessica Bruder

The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's celebrated film starring Frances McDormand, winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress A Selection of the PBS Newshour-New York Times "Now Read This" Book Club New York Times bestseller "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest 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 Americans.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · medium confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismTopic Classifier: Essays & Cultural Criticism -> Arts & CriticismEssays & Cultural CriticismFilm, Television & Popular CultureHousing, Cities & Urban LifeLabor, Work & Organizing
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • North Dakota36%
    • California36%
    • Texas36%
  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 46%.