The Midway Woods Book Club is currently reading the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. and will be gathering (online) to discuss it on Monday, April 12 at 7p.m.

If you’d like to participate in the discussion of this book, just send an email to midwaywoodscommunications@gmail.com and let us know you’d like to join!

Jessica Bruder’s  book chronicles the experiences of a group of older Americans who, following the recession of 2007-2009, adopted transient lifestyles traveling around the United States in search of seasonal work. The book was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times, was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award, and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. It was adapted into a short documentary film, CamperForce, and more recently was made into a movie, also called Nomadland, currently streaming on Hulu.

You can check out Nomadland from the Dekalb County Public Library (though there is currently a backlog of people with requests in for the book, you can check out a digital copy of the book through the library’s Overdrive service). You can also order a copy of Nomadland the book online through Bookshop.org, where a portion of the book sales go to local bookstores, or through your favorite online or offline retailer.