![]() ![]() ![]() You can sign up for a free library card here. Peruse the list to find a book (or movie) that matches the aspect of “Nomadland” that most resonated with you!Īnd for more suggestions check out these read-alikes for the book “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” which cover similar topics and themes. Here are studies of communities that live outside of what could be considered the norm, stories of looking for home or elegizing what home was, stories of being a migrant, and histories of homelessness and the causes of poverty. I’ve put together a list of read-alikes for the book and film, covering different facets of their appeal. As my colleague and co-worker Gabby describes in her Staff Picks for the book, it is an engaging and thought-provoking journalistic account of the author’s time living and traveling with older Americans who have chosen or been forced by circumstances to become itinerant workers on the margins of society. The film adaptation of “Nomadland: Survivng America in the Twenty-First Century” by Jessica Bruder just won Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars. ![]()
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