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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class Audiobook, by Sarah Smarsh Play Audiobook Sample

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class Audiobook

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Read By: Sarah Smarsh Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781797183206

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

39

Longest Chapter Length:

72:15 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

35 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

17:02 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America—featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction.

In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, this thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her highly relevant, previously published essays from the past decade (2013–2024)—ranging from personal narratives to news commentary—demonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future.

Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.

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About Sarah Smarsh

Sarah Smarsh has covered socioeconomic class, politics, and public policy for the Guardian, VQR, NewYorker.com, Harpers.org, Texas Observer, and many others. She is currently a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. A former professor of nonfiction writing, she is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and related media narratives.