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September 14, 2018

Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America

For me, country was not a look, a style, or even a conscious attitude, but a physical place, its experience defined by distance from the forces of culture that would commodify it.

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Excerpted from Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink