Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, Sarah Smarsh, 2018,304 pages.

Come enjoy a glass of wine and discuss this most affecting story of the lives of the author and her family as they face the hardships of working the land in rural Kansas.  Smarsh weaves through her family narrative the roadblocks to overcoming poverty imposed by government policies that favor big business and the wealthy.