A review by tiredenglishteacher
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful memoir about growing up poor in the richest country on earth (whoops, is that exactly the subtitle? It’s accurate). Family ties, generational patterns and traumas, and the systems that keep poor people poor all explored. Unique exploration of poor, working White American life.  Audiobook was great, could not stop listening.