It recently took home three Oscars, including Best Picture.īruder is a journalist who focuses on subcultures, social issues and the intersection of the two. Directed by Chloe Zhao, the film stars Frances McDormand and features the nomads Bruder met in her reporting who play themselves. “Nomadland” was published in 2017 and shortly afterward adapted for film. The result is a sometimes devastating, sometimes humorous (but always honest) account of how economic struggle created a neighborhood of nomads with no house in sight. Throughout the book, we learn about their lifestyle alongside Bruder, who lived in a van of her own while reporting the project. It observes a host of nomads, getting to know their quirks, their struggles and sometimes even their pets. “Nomadland” is the deeply candid chronicle of a growing community of American nomads who, after the Great Recession, turned their vehicles into homes to travel the country in search of work and a liberated lifestyle. What Jessica Bruder ’00 found in “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” didn’t need wings - it already had wheels. Every so often, a journalist finds a story and gives it wings.
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