Bone of the Bone : Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America?eaturing a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times?lass division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, this thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her highly relevant, previously published essays from the past decade (2013?024)?anging from personal narratives to news commentary?emonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future. Compiling Smarsh? reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh? essays?n topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the ?ed vs. blue?political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more?re an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.

Author: Sarah Smarsh

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Publication Date: Sep 10, 2024

Number of Pages: 352 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 1668055600

ISBN-13: 9781668055601