I enjoyed the prose here, and Bruder clearly has affection for her subjects, but I feel like this book overpromised about saying something important about America and the economy, but was really just a look at a pretty small subculture.

I was struck by how small the subculture this book covered was. It's hard to say it's reflective of a larger trend when it seems to be just a few thousand people in the nation.

One thing that struck me here were that this is a very pre-pandemic book. The economy and society has changed a lot in the few years since it was written, and I'd enjoy a followup about how they made it through.