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Breaking stereotypes about rural middle America

Breaking stereotypes about rural middle America

Update: 2024-10-31
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Sarah Smarsh grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas, and in her new essay collection Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class, she tackles the narrative that people from the heartland are just “backwards, bigoted, terrible folks.” 

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Breaking stereotypes about rural middle America

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