Journalist and author of Heartland

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Journalist and
author of Heartland

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Journalist and
author of Heartland

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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh

Heartland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth-generation Kansas farm girl, the child of a carpenter and a teen mom. Through intimate family stories and deeply researched cultural analysis, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth reveals today’s socioeconomic divide. Read more…

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“A deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight.”

–The New York Times Book Review

Section 2

“An unsentimental tribute to the working-class people Smarsh knows—the farmers, office clerks, trash collectors, waitresses—whose labor is often invisible or disdained.”

–Fresh Air, NPR

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“This is the nation’s class divide brought into sharp relief through personal history… Heartland is a thoughtful, bighearted tale.”

–The Washington Post

She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton and the Women
Who Lived Her Songs

The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton. Read more…

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She Come By It Natural, Sarah Smarsh
The Homecomers Podcast
The Homecomers Podcast

Rural ain’t what you think it is. Sarah Smarsh’s new podcast The Homecomers brings you intimate conversations with people fighting for the rural and working-class communities they love.

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Sarah Smarsh

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