Bingo: On the Road; Passport: USA Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland documents several years of immersion into the subculture of vandwellers, people who call themselves houseless rather than homeless, living in their vehicles and moving between seasonal jobs such as camp hosting in national parks, Amazon’s Camperforce, and harvesting crops. The narrative follows a number of members and leaders of the vandweller community, but the focus character is Linda May who lives with her dog Coco in a 1974 ten-foot trailer towed behind a Jeep. Like most […]
On the road to nowhere
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder