Working Class Family Memoirs: Unveiling Inequality's Impact
Heartland and Beyond: Two Families, One Shared Struggle Two poignant memoirs, Heartland by Sarah Smarsh and A Working-Class Family Ages Badly by Juno Roche, offer starkly contrasting yet deeply resonant portraits of working-class life. While Smarsh chronicles the struggles of her family in rural Kansas, Roche depicts the hardships faced by her family in urban London. Despite the geographical and cultural differences, both narratives converge on a shared theme: the crushing weight of persistent poverty and its devastating intergenerational consequences....