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Summary of Jessica Bruder's Nomadland

By: Slingshot Books
Narrated by: Aaron Friedrichsen
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1. Linda Mary is a grandmother who now lives in a trailer she named the Squeeze Inn, attached to a Jeep. In 2015, she was heading to Hanna Flat, a campground in California where she would be working during the summer, as she had done the previous year.

2. Even though she was 64, she did not have enough savings to be able to retire comfortably, so she had to keep working. She was enthusiastic about the fact that Hanna Flat would be giving her a raise over the previous year, an additional 20 cents per hour.

3. Many Americans, like Linda, work full-time on the road. These nomads are attempting to avoid an economic paradox: the collision of rising rents and stagnant wages - a force that cannot be stopped, running into an immovable object.

4. Wages and cost of housing have diverged so substantially that the dream of a middle-class life has become difficult, if not impossible, for a growing number of Americans.

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