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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or workampers. Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, The End of Retirement, which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or vanily. Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.

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"""[A] devastating, revelatory book."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""[A] powerhouse of a book...in the best immersive-journalism tradition...Visceral and haunting reporting."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Engaging, highly relevant immersion journalism."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Important, eye-opening journalism."" -- ""Minneapolis Star Tribune"" ""Stunning and beautifully written...Brilliant and haunting."" -- "" New York Times Book Review"""

[A] devastating, revelatory book. -- Washington Post [A] powerhouse of a book...in the best immersive-journalism tradition...Visceral and haunting reporting. -- Booklist (starred review) Engaging, highly relevant immersion journalism. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Important, eye-opening journalism. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune Stunning and beautifully written...Brilliant and haunting. -- New York Times Book Review

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Jessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on subcultures and the dark corners of the economy. She has written for Harper's, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews. She currently lives with her family in Wilmington, North Carolina. Publishers Weekly says of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience. Speaking of Audiobooks says, Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators-if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try.

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