Nomadland (Nomadland)

Today I read an article about Amazon and their approaches to obtaining super profits and further capture of market share and remembered about the giga "Land of Nomads" authored by journalist Jessica Brooder. This book made the best film. 2020 According to the American Film Academy (Oscar).

The book is written in a semi-documentary style, when the author weaves the stories of modern nomads into a single tapestry, giving gray, disappointment and new hope for an unpretentious life on the road. The reader gradually plunges into the kaleidoscope of people, their homes on wheels, measured life and migration across America in search of seasonal work. But observation from the outside is not enough for a deep understanding and in the final part of the book, the journalist decides on invasive methods of research and becomes a part-time worker herself, working in Amazon warehouses and undergoing the glowing procedure, collecting sugar beets in the Dakota. It is this experience that allows you to put pieces of the puzzle together, feel everything on your own skin and approach the end of the book. Interestingly, the last chapter is devoted to the story of the eco-house in the desert, which decides to build the main character, a retired nomad, whose story unfolded throughout the book. And it's symbolic because the chapter is called "Home."

In the epilogue, the author says that modern nomads are becoming more and more due to fundamental changes in the economy and a huge gap in the income of the population. In fact, the population is divided into castes, one of which are modern nomads who do not have enough money for real estate and who live on the road.

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