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Get to know the men and women who call themselves “workampers” in Jessica Bruder’s book entitled Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century. Based on her research, the author takes you inside the world of a group of Americans, mostly retirement age, who have given up their homes and are now living a nomadic lifestyle, just to make ends meet. You’ll learn what life is like for them, the good and the bad, and the why and how of it all.
The book has received rave reviews since its release in September 2017 and just one month later it was ranked #1 in Geography Textbooks and Gerontology-Social Sciences on Amazon.
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Get to know the men and women who call themselves “workampers” in Jessica Bruder’s book entitled Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century. Based on her research, the author takes you inside the world of a group of Americans, mostly retirement age, who have given up their homes and are now living a nomadic lifestyle, just to make ends meet. You’ll learn what life is like for them, the good and the bad, and the why and how of it all.
The book has received rave reviews since its release in September 2017 and just one month later it was ranked #1 in Geography Textbooks and Gerontology-Social Sciences on Amazon.
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.
These questions can be used to..
Create Hours of Conversation:
• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
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