![]() ![]() This includes Bruder’s heroine Linda May, who, throughout the book, tows her trailer home “the Squeeze Inn” behind her Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. Starring two-time Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand, the film adaptation of Nomadland features real people turned actors, a signature of director Chloé Zhao’s films. When Bruder gave her CLSC author presentation in August 2018, Nomadland had already won a Discover Award and been named a “Notable Book” and “Editors’ Choice” by The New York Times.īut the ribbon of yellow on the book Bruder held in her hands last Sunday announces, in all caps, a special development: “Soon to be a major motion picture.” A Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection in 2018, the nonfiction book contains the stories of people like Linda May and Ghost Dancer - Americans who forgo traditional housing and travel the United States in search of work. Before she began her Sunday reading in the Hall of Philosophy as the Writers’ Center Week Two prose writer-in-residence, Jessica Bruder showed off the stripe that now gilds new copies of her 2017 book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |