Hosted by Baldwin City Library

BookTALK is back for the fall!

First up is Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh:

*Finalist for the National Book Award*

*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize*

*Instant New York Times Bestseller*

*Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly.

Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland.

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

Come in and pick up a copy of the book (no library card necessary). Then join us at the library on Sept. 17 at 7pm for a discussion led by Robyn Long.