Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country by Quart, Alissa

Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642599657)

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Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country by Quart, Alissa

Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country

$19.95
Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country by Quart, Alissa

Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.

Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara Ehrenreich, who conceived of EHRP, once described as "the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals."

One essayist and grocery store worker describes what it is like to be an "essential worker" during the pandemic; another reporter and military veteran details his experience with homelessness and what would have actually helped him at the time. These dozens of fierce and sometimes darkly funny pieces reflect the larger systems that have made writers' bodily experiences, family and home lives, and work far harder than they ought to be.

Featuring introductions by luminaries including Michelle Tea, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor, Going for Broke is revelatory. It shows us the costs of income inequality to our bodies and our minds-and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions.

Author: Alissa Quart
ISBN-10: 1642599654
ISBN-13: 9781642599657
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Booklist 10/01/2023 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 10/09/2023
By Alissa Quart
By Alissa Quart
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Alissa Quart is the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Squeezed, Republic of Outsiders, Hothouse Kids, and Branded. She is the Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and is also the author of two books of poetry. She has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME.

David Wallis has contributed to The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among other publications. He has edited two critically acclaimed books, Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print and Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. He previously served as managing director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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