Nomadland: A Journey Through the American West in the 21st Century

grey hair: excellent read. needs to be in EVERY library.. a side of America know one sees or hears about....

United States on Dec 14, 2023

Antonio D.: Muy buen libro en el que se basa la película que oscarizó a Frances Macdormand. Muy recomendable

Spain on Sep 30, 2023

A.B.C.: Eindrucksvoller, authentischer, bewegender Film auf der Basis eines eindrucksvollen Buches.

Germany on Jan 13, 2022

Laura Buffa: ho trovato il libro molto più interessante del film che ne è stato ricavato, nel film il continuo spostarsi di questi nuovi nomadi migranti interni assumeva connotazioni "romantiche", una scelta di vita "on the road", mentre dal libro si capisce come questa sia molto spesso non una "scelta", ma un modo per sopravvivere alla crisi finanziaria ed economica dell'inizio di questo secolo: sono persone anziane, di 70 anni e più, che hanno perso tutto con fondi di pensione privati, che hanno perso il lavoro e non possono permettersi di pagare le rate del mutuo, che non hanno più un soldo, vendono tutto ciò che hanno e comperano un veicolo dove vivere, spostandosi, seguendo lavori stagionali. Il loro principale datore di lavoro è Amazon, che li preferisce ai giovani, in quanto questi ultra settantenni hanno un' "etica del lavoro". e lavorano sodo. leggetelo, è un ritratto fedele dell' America che non immaginiamo.

Italy on Dec 08, 2021

Christian Nugue: Il y a ceux qui rêvent de vivre libres et ceux qui vivent libres. Parfois à leur corps défendant. Victimes d'un accident économique ou d'un licenciement, ils se retrouvent la soixantaine venue à déplacer des colis dans les hangars interminables d'Amazon. En attendant de retrouver en fin de journée leur caravane, leur seule possession terrestre. Et certains le vivent bien.
Cet ode au nomadisme émane d'une journaliste exacte, pointilleuse qui ne cherche pas à nous "vendre" les charmes d'une existence minimaliste

France on Sep 26, 2021

Buffy: I just bought this book, so perhaps I should wait until I've read it. I'm also from rural Canada, so perhaps things are different here. Living out of a RV or car seems like an expensive way to live to me. Vehicles always need repair, and until the pandemic, gas was relatively expensive. Is there not geared to income rent opportunities in the States? Not that being poor in your twilight years is easy in Canada. My Father worked as an auto mechanic all his life and had little to show for it when he was deemed obsolete before he was 65, but he was able to keep his small but well maintained house. I can't wait to sink my teeth into this book. I'll write a review when I'm done. The one star was just so I could post.

I have now finished the book and I must admit that it really kept me reading. I enjoyed it very much. It seems like an awfully hard way to live. I new a boy in our neighborhood who was a petty thieve and I always thought that if he put as much work and effort into a job as he did hiding and disposing of stolen goods he'd be better off. I don't think that its the nomads that are at fault but it seems like living on the road takes as much upkeep and work as maintaining...

Canada on May 04, 2021

John P. Jones III: I lived in Saudi Arabia over the period of a quarter century. Reliable statistics are notoriously hard to come by. More so, if they are from the government, which has problems resisting “spin.” Therefore, it was my own observations that lead me to conclude that approximately 20% of the population in Saudi Arabia was nomadic when I arrived in 1978. By 2003, when I left, the number had dropped to considerably under 1%. The black tents, made from goat hair, had disappeared from the landscape. One bedu, who hosted me for one night in 1984, had become the night watchman at a government clinic in Yabrin, by 2002. I asked him about his camels, sheep and goats. Yes, he still had them, but the Sudanese now herded them. Ah, immigrant labor! The Saudi government’s policy was to settle the bedu. They did not meet much resistance from the inheritors of a way of life that had existed for thousands of years. Sure, the painting of bedu around the campfire, swapping stories, can appear “romantic.” One summer of living in daily heat of 120 F would dissuade the most hard-core romantic; as one bedu bluntly told me: the bedu life is “mush quais” (not good).

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United States on Jun 09, 2019

Ron K: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder is a nonfiction modern day horror novel. I liked the highly appropriate subtitle: Surviving America In The Twenty-First Century. I am an avid fan of fiction horror novels but this real horror story hits close to home. I have read and heard accounts of our aging population choosing between food and medicine, food and housing, and living below the poverty line but many of us hear these accounts only occasionally. We then move on to the next news item. Jessica Bruder puts more precise numbers to this demographic. In only a few cases are “screen” names used to protect privacy. See her “Notes” section for details. Bruder has done an exhaustive study over more than three years and has returned to several sources for follow up interviews. The startling information I read and listened to in the Kindle book and Audible recorded book kept me awake nights.

As a baby boomer myself, this is where the baby boomer hippie crowd has landed. Many of that younger 1960s crowd lived what they considered a humanist, moral existence that respected the environment. Without training as doctors, it seemed they respected the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” A...

United States on Mar 10, 2018