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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

nomadland

On the Road of Journalism: A Conversation with Jessica Bruder, Author of Nomadland

By Rebecca Picciotto

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May 12, 2021

Every so often, a journalist finds a story and gives it wings. What Jessica Bruder ’00 found in “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” didn’t need wings — it already had wheels. “Nomadland” is the deeply candid chronicle of a growing community of American nomads who, after the Great Recession, turned their vehicles into homes to travel the country in search of work and a liberated lifestyle. It observes a host of nomads, getting to know their quirks, their struggles and some

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