*Finalist for the Country wide Book Award*

*Finalist for the Kirkus Reward*

*Instant New York Times Bestseller*

*Called a Best Book of the entire year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Web publishers Weekly*

An essential read for our instances: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our knowledge of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.*

Sarah Smarsh was created a 5th about Heartland: A Memoir of SPENDING SO MUCH TIME and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth era Kansas whole wheat farmer on her behalf paternal aspect, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal aspect. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles western of Wichita, we receive a distinctive and essential check out the lives of poor and operating class Americans living in the heartland.

During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she liked the freedom of a country child years, but noticed the painful problems from the poverty around her; untreated medical ailments for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive interactions, and limited resources and information that could give the upward mobility this is the American Desire. By telling the story of her lifestyle as well as the lives from the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the course divide in our country.

Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and social commentary, demanding the misconceptions about people regarded as much less because they earn less.

“Heartland is among a growing number of essential works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that collectively merit their personal section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline…Smarsh shows the way the fake promise from the ‘American desire’ was used to subjugate the indegent. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Reserve Review).