Status Updates From Heartland: A Memoir of Work...

“My family’s labor was undervalued to such an extent that, while we never starved, or went without shelter in a chronic way, we all knew what it felt like to need something essential: food, shoes, a safe place to live, a rent payment, a trip to the doctor, and go without it for lack of money.”

“So much of childhood amounts to being awake in a grownups nightmare.”

“You can pay an entire life in labor, it turns out, and have nothing to show for it.” Coming from a coal mining turned manual labor family after the mine closed, I can already tell how close to home this will hit in the first chapter.