Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind (Olmstead Grace)(Pevná vazba)

A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands.--Kirkus Reviews In the tradition of Wendell Berry, a young writer wrestles with what we owe the places we've left behind.

In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in search of greener pastures, better jobs, and college. Those who stay are left to contend with thinning communities, punishing government farm policy, and environmental decay. Grace Olmstead, now a journalist in Washington, DC, is one who left, and in Uprooted, she examines the heartbreaking consequences of uprooting--for Emmett, and for the greater heartland America. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Uprooted wrestles with the questions of what we owe the places we come from and what
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