Bruder, Jessica - A nomádok földje

Land of the Nomads is a fact-finding story from the dark depths of the American economy and about those who gave up their previous lives in the hope of survival. From the sugar beet fields of North Dakota to the campsites of California to the CamperForce program of Amazon in Texas, employers have found a new, low-cost source of labor: the twenty-first, constantly on the road. century nomads. They are the invisible victims of the great economic crisis. They, who set off by the tens of thousands in their vans converted into caravans, as members of the ever-growing nomadic society. They are the ones who don't give up hope.
"Those who thought the financial crash of 2008 was long over should get to know the people Jessica Bruder presents in her searing, beautifully written, lively, disturbing (and occasionally very humorous) book," said the book's reviewers. The same was said by critics at the Oscars, after the movie of the same name based on the book, starring the wonderful Frances McDormand, won three awards.
Following routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder met a former university lecturer, a McDonald's vice president, a president, a pastor, a college administrator, a motorcycle cop, and her unstoppable protagonist, Linda May, a former cocktail waitress, home improvement store salesperson, and general contractor.
With his used car named "Van Halen", Bruder sets off to get to know the characters of his book more closely. As she follows Linda May and her friends from a job as a campsite cleaner to a job as a warehouse product sorter to meetings in the desert and then to the dangerous job of picking sugar beets, Bruder tells a fascinating, fact-finding story about the dark depths of the American economy - and foreshadows the uncertain future that may await many of us. At the same time, it extols the exceptional resilience and creativity of these thoroughly American people, with which they renounced being tied to place in order to survive. They didn't give up hope.