"This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter
to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and
service workers. Those catching the brunt of it all, those with the
steepest hills to climb, may have been fucked at birth. But for
everyone, as Maharidge observes, the feeling of safety is folly. A
sharp wake-up call to heed the new Depression and to recognize the
humanity of those hit hardest." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
"Dale Maharidge takes us coast to coast in 2020, down highways
along which he first reported decades ago. His honed class
awareness-unrivaled among contemporary journalists-reveals that
today's confluent health, economic and social crises are the
logical conclusion to generations of unvalidated, untreated despair
in a wealthy nation. Forget hollow commentary from detached
television news studios in New York City. Fucked at Birth is the
truth." -Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and
Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Pulitzer prize-winning
journalist Dale Maharidge has spent his career documenting the
downward spiral of the American working class. Poverty is both
reality and destiny for increasing numbers of people in the 2020s
and, as Maharidge discovers spray-painted inside an abandoned gas
station in the California desert, it is a fate often handed down
from birth. Motivated by this haunting phrase-"Fucked at
Birth"-Maharidge explores the realities of being poor in America in
the coming decade, as pandemic, economic crisis and social
revolution up-end the country. Part raw memoir, part dogged,
investigative journalism, Fucked At Birth channels the history of
poverty in America to help inform the voices Maharidge encounters
daily. In an unprecedented time of social activism amid economic
crisis, when voices everywhere are rising up for change,
Maharidge's journey channels the spirits of George Orwell and James
Agee, raising questions about class, privilege, and the very
concept of "upward mobility," while serving as a final call to
action. From Sacramento to Denver, Youngstown to New York City,
Fucked At Birth dares readers to see themselves in those suffering
most, and to finally-after decades of refusal-recalibrate what we
are going to do about it.
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