Please join us for a Zoom discussion facilitated by Maureen Hanlon on Tuesday evening, May 11th at 7:00pm.  We will be discussing Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, we expect to have copies of the book available at the library so give us a call to arrange to pick one up.  Although the movie did win the Golden Globe for Best Picture Drama grab the book for a quick read before you watch the movie.

“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. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads.” (Amazon)

“At once wonderfully humane and deeply troubling, the book offers an eye-opening tour of the increasingly unequal, unstable, and insecure future our country is racing toward.”
― Astra Taylor, The Nation

“A remarkable book of immersive reporting.…Bruder is an acute and compassionate observer.”
― Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker