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    Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh | Conversation Starters
    Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh | Conversation Starters
    Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh | Conversation Starters
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    Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh | Conversation Starters

    Sarah Smarsh asked herself “what would I tell my daughter?” It’s this question that kept her on track, pursuing an education and using the can-do attitude which she inherited from her family to rise out of the cycle of poverty. She writes about the women and men in her family in a tone filled with love and care as she talks about their survival concerns. White but poor women had to bear pregnancies without adequate health care. They held physical jobs that chain them to repetitive work. She tells how it is to go through the shame of being poor. Smarsh gets educated and gets a better life but many other farmers’ families remain poor and their poverty is associated with being bad. The economic inequality that is revealed in her story is an indictment of a country that “has failed its children.” The American Conservative review says it is a book with a “transformative vision” and is a message needed to “wake up a blind and uncaring America.” 
    Heartland is an instant New York Times bestseller. It is a Finalist for the National Book Award.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaily Books
    Release dateMar 21, 2019
    ISBN9788832549690
    Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh | Conversation Starters

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      Introducing Heartland

      Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth is a book written by Sarah Smarsh. The book tells the story of Smarsh who grows up in Kansas as a daughter to a family of working-class farmers in the 1980s and 90s. Smarsh relates her story by talking to an imaginary unborn child of hers, who by not being born, allows Smarsh to break the cycle which condemned her parents and grandparents to poverty. Smarsh believes that her family’s poverty is partly because the women marry at an early age. Her mother was a teenager when she got pregnant with her. All the other women in her family were likewise young mothers who did grueling farm work in order to

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