Sarah Smarsh is a Kansas-based journalist who has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian and many other publications. Her first book, HEARTLAND: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was a finalist for the National Book Award. A 2018 research fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Smarsh is a frequent speaker and commentator on economic inequality.

Books by Sarah Smarsh

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh - Memoir, Nonfiction, Sociology

An essential read for our times, HEARTLAND is an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country.