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Nomadland
SURVIVING AMERICA IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
JESSICA BRUDER
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS SINCE 1923
NEW YORK LONDON
For Dale

“There’s a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.”
—LEONARD COHEN
“The capitalists don’t want anyone living off their economic grid.”
—ANONYMOUS COMMENTER,
AZDAILYSUN.COM
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Part One
1
. The Squeeze Inn
2
. The End
3
. Surviving America
4
. Escape Plan
Part Two
5
. Amazon Town
6
. The Gathering Place
7
. The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous
8
. Halen
9
. Some Unbeetable Experiences
Part Three
10
. The H Word
11
. Homecoming
Coda:

The Octopus in the Coconut
Acknowledgments
Notes
FOREWORD
AS I WRITE THIS,
they are scattered across the country—
In Drayton, North Dakota, a former San Francisco cabdriver, sixty-seven, labors at the annual sugar beet harvest. He works from sunrise until after sunset in temperatures that dip below freezing, helping trucks that roll in from the fields disgorge multi-ton loads of beets. At night he sleeps in the van that has been his home ever since Uber squeezed him out of the taxi industry and making the rent became impossible.
In Campbellsville, Kentucky, a sixty-six-year-old ex–general contractor stows merchandise during the overnight shift at an Amazon warehouse, pushing a wheeled cart for miles along the concrete floor. It’s mind-numbing work and she struggles to scan each item accurately, hoping to avoid getting fired. In the morning she returns to her tiny trailer, moored at one of several mobile home parks that contract with Amazon to put up nomadic workers like her.
In New Bern, North Carolina, a woman whose home is a teardrop-style trailer—so small it can be pulled with a motorcycle—is couch-surfing
with a friend while hunting for work. Even with a master’s degree, the thirty-eight-year-old Nebraska native can’t find a job despite filling out hundreds of applications in the past month alone. She knows the sugar beet harvest is hiring, but traveling halfway across the country would require more cash than she has. Losing her job at a non-profit several years ago is one of the reasons she moved into the trailer in the first place. After the funding for her position ran out, she couldn’t afford rent on top of paying off student loans.
In San Marcos, California, a thirtysomething couple in a 1975 GMC motorhome is running a roadside pumpkin stand with a children’s carnival and petting zoo, w ............

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