


The result is a sympathetic retelling of their nomadic stories, as well as a realistic look at how these travelers cope with “Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.”īruder chooses Linda May as the touchstone of the book. Bruder spent three years traveling among groups of American nomads, talking with them, sharing their campsites, listening to their dreams.

Some live this way by choice, but Jessica Bruder, the author of Nomadland, focuses on those who have been forced by economic circumstances to pursue migrant lives on the road. An eye-opening book of investigative journalism, Nomadland explores the terrain traveled by those who are houseless-not homeless, houseless-men and women who live year-round in one kind of vehicle or another.
