Rachel Biggs’s Reviews > Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth > Status Update

“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.”