Bone of the bone: essays on America by a daughter of the working class, 2013-2024

Introduction

How I moved twenty-one times before college

Highway construction may unearth human remains

Dear daughter, your mom

Freedom mandate

Poor teeth

Lede, Nutgraph, and body

Poverty, pride, and prejudice

Linguistic notice for homo sapiens heretofore known as 'pussies' and 'little bitches'

Believe it

The first person on Mars

The new migrants

The wind doesn't stop at customs

Dangerous idiots

The jump

Blood brother

The uprising of women in 'red states' is just beginning

The winter wheat I helped raise

Writing assignment

Liberal blind spots are hiding the truth

At the precise geographic heart of the dark-money beast

Blue wave in Kansas

Brain gain

Chronicling a community, and a country, in economic crisis

I am burning with fury and grief

In defense of populism

How is arguing with Trump voters working out for you?

Rural route

Revision

Extraction

What to do with our Covid rage

In celebration of rare and exquisite accuracy from Hollywood

Shelterbelt

In the running

For my lover

The butchering shed

Unwanted gifts

Note on original publications

Acknowledgments.