Zhao built the story on Fern (McDormand), who packs her van after losing almost everything and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. She discovered along the way their resiliency, and how their sense of hope is fully intact. It was Bruder who set off in an old van to follow along with “workampers,” the Great Recession-driven low-cost labor pool of mostly transient older Americans who hit the road in RVs, vans and travel trailers as migrant workers. Nominations also include from the USC Scripters, which recognize both the adapted screenplay and the original work. |a White, Karen |q (Karen Elizabeth), |e narrator.'Nomadland's Chloé Zhao Makes History As First Asian Woman To Receive Golden Globe Directing Nomination

|a Recreational vehicle living |z United States. |a Retirement |x Economic aspects |z United States. |a Retirees |x Employment |z United States. |a Older people |x Employment |z United States. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or 'workampers.' Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, 'The End of Retirement,' which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or 'vanily.' Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans? Many of them single women? Who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life. |a From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. |a 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 59 min.)) : |b digital. |a Nomadland : |b surviving America in the twenty-first century |h / |c Jessica Bruder. |a 1681687194 |q (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)

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