Not wanting to be a burden and craving her freedom she fixed up a tiny trailer and named it “squeeze Inn.” Linda is a 64-year-old grandmother who sleeping on her daughter’s couch. The author closes in on a few stories but gets particularly close to Linda May, who she met when working on a magazine story about American nomads. People in their sixties and seventies that are travelling around the United States looking for seasonal work Amazon distribution centres, sugar beet harvesting, working at campgrounds and state fairs. There are some younger vandwellers but most of them are older. Some are divorced and lost everything in the settlement.
Some fell ill and had to use all their money for medical care. Some have had their savings wiped out after the Global Financial Crisis. Some have master’s degrees and are swimming in student loans. Some worked in manufacturing which just shut up shop to go overseas. Some were taxi drivers, who got kicked out of the business when Uber started. Instead of bricks and mortar, vandwellers have “wheel estate”, which could be “vans, secondhand RVs, school buses, pickup campers, travel trailers and plain old sedans.” These are people that are “houseless” rather than homeless. No, he has one goal and that is to get back under the tyranny of those rules, where he feels comfortable and safe.” Some people consider vandwellers homeless, to that Bob Wells says, “A homeless person may live in a van but he isn’t there because he hates society’s rules. Whether or not they chose their lifestyle, they have embraced it.” The author, Jessica Bruder, immersed herself in the world of vandwellers, who Bob Wells, creator of labels as “conscientious objectors from a broken, corrupting social order. Since I tend to gravitate towards fiction, I guess I didn’t notice this one – shame on me.
Last year there was so much talk about the movie, especially as it won Academy awards for best picture, best director and best actress, that I didn’t realise the movie as based on a book. I was surprised when I found out that Nomadland was a book.
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