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28/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Eliese Colette Goldbach
Publisher:
Flatiron Books
Date:
March 3, 2020
In Rust, Eliese 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.
What The Reviewers Say
Goldbach’s story has many threads, and for the most part she weaves them skillfully, pausing only a beat or two too long for lengthy explanations of the history of the steel industry, or the rise of Donald Trump.
... has elements of Tara Westover’s but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme.
Goldbach tells the stories that [steelworkers] had no words for. She does that brilliantly, honouring the life of honest work lived by millions of American manual workers who complain that they are treated with disdain in today’s US.
...[Goldbach's] description of the initial safety videos and the weeks of training vividly catch us at each moment.
