Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the Worlds Richest Country Quart Alissa
A collection of compelling, hard-hitting essays, documentary poems, and photographs that together expose our punitive social systems from the ground up.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart,…
Specifikacia Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the Worlds Richest Country Quart Alissa
A collection of compelling, hard-hitting essays, documentary poems, and photographs that together expose our punitive social systems from the ground up.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, EHRP's Managing Director, gives voice to a range of gifted writers who know what it means to live on the edge. These are journalists for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. 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