These omissions don’t doom the book but they do mark it. Not to mention that in the light of the death of Philando Castile, among others. She writes that 'there is hope on the road' - a blinkered view in 2017, after the passage of Arizona SB 1070, which required law enforcement to request the immigration papers of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally (portions of the bill have since been overturned). More than most, it’s able to comfortably contain various contradictions. Nomadland is part of a fleet of recent books about the gig economy. an important if frustrating new work influenced by such classics of immersion journalism as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed.
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