Alissa Quart is the author of four previous books of nonfiction, including Squeezed and Branded, and two books of poetry. She is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and writes for publications including the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Her honors include an Emmy, a Nieman Fellowship, and Columbia University's Journalism School Alumna of the Year. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is centr... SEE MORE