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''[a] memoir of modern American industrial life, written by the
insider who got away - or got away enough to reflect intelligently
on where they came from. Think JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and even
Tara Westover's Educated . . . We could all learn from her
example.' New York Times Book Review Eliese wasn't supposed to be a
steelworker. Raised by staunchly Republican and Catholic parents,
Eliese dreamed of escaping Cleveland and achieving greatness in the
convent as a nun. Full of promise and burgeoning ideals, she leaves
her hometown, but one night her life's course is violently altered.
A night that sets her mind reeling and her dreams waning. A cycle
of mania and depression sinks in where once there were miracles and
prayers, and upon returning home she is diagnosed with mixed-state
bipolar disorder. Set on a path she doesn't recognize as her own,
Eliese finds herself under the orange flame of Cleveland's
notorious steel mill, applying for a job that could be her ticket
to regaining stability and salvation. In Rust, Eliese invites the
reader inside the belly of the mill. Steel is the only thing that
shines amid the molten iron, towering cranes, and churning mills.
Dust settles on everything - on forklifts and hard hats, on men
with forgotten hopes and lives cut short by harsh working
conditions, on a dismissed blue-collar living and on what's left of
the American dream. But Eliese discovers solace in the tumultuous
world of steel, unearthing a love and a need for her hometown she
didn't know existed. This is the story of the humanity Eliese finds
in the most unlikely of places and the wisdom that comes from the
very things we try to run away from most. A reclamation of roots,
Rust is a shining debut memoir of grit and tenacity and the hope
that therefore begins to grow.
''[a] memoir of modern American industrial life, written by the
insider who got away - or got away enough to reflect intelligently
on where they came from. Think JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and even
Tara Westover's Educated . . . We could all learn from her
example.' New York Times Book Review Eliese wasn't supposed to be a
steelworker. Raised by staunchly Republican and Catholic parents,
Eliese dreamed of escaping Cleveland and achieving greatness in the
convent as a nun. Full of promise and burgeoning ideals, she leaves
her hometown, but one night her life's course is violently altered.
A night that sets her mind reeling and her dreams waning. A cycle
of mania and depression sinks in where once there were miracles and
prayers, and upon returning home she is diagnosed with mixed-state
bipolar disorder. Set on a path she doesn't recognize as her own,
Eliese finds herself under the orange flame of Cleveland's
notorious steel mill, applying for a job that could be her ticket
to regaining stability and salvation. In Rust, Eliese invites the
reader inside the belly of the mill. Steel is the only thing that
shines amid the molten iron, towering cranes, and churning mills.
Dust settles on everything - on forklifts and hard hats, on men
with forgotten hopes and lives cut short by harsh working
conditions, on a dismissed blue-collar living and on what's left of
the American dream. But Eliese discovers solace in the tumultuous
world of steel, unearthing a love and a need for her hometown she
didn't know existed. This is the story of the humanity Eliese finds
in the most unlikely of places and the wisdom that comes from the
very things we try to run away from most. A reclamation of roots,
Rust is a shining debut memoir of grit and tenacity and the hope
that therefore begins to grow.
One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to
rebuild her life--but what she uncovers in the mill is much more than
molten metal and grueling working conditions. Under the mill's orange
flame she finds hope for the unity of America.
Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill...
To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but
this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind
her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots,
Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The
mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it's also her only
shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten
part of America.
In Rust, Eliese Colette Goldbach brings the reader inside the belly of
the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in
the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt
childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without
turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees
as the unsung backbone of our nation.
Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker's paycheck, and the
very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could
crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because
of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and
camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day.
Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, Rust is a story
of the humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of
places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow.
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