Podcast Bonus Episode 64: Nomadland

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! Check out our show notes page, for all the links to the books we have to share. We are taking a small detour from our usual book group structure to look at some of the pop culture going on around us. And of course: we share related books! As we always do: grab your book, grab a beverage, and maybe get your streaming subscription warmed up because you are going to want to see this! Today we are chatting about the new movie coming out tomorrow: Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. In this movie "After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad." This movie is based on the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, by Jessica Bruder. "From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads."