Sarah Smarsh

Heartland Review

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

In this era when everyone seems focused on the growth of our cities we know that our readership is still heartily invested in our rural landscape. The people Smarsh writes about are our neighbors, and maybe even ourselves. Heartland is touted as a memoir but it is a life study, an ethnography if you will, of farm-based families that struggle to get by.