“For everybody who can actually make a living or enough to eat and put gas in the tank on the road as an influencer, there are thousands of people who would probably like to be doing that and cannot.”īruder recognizes, though, that the performative aspect of social media means that some people might be trying to make their experiences living in a van, whether temporary or not, appear more fun than their reality might be. “There are people of all ages who are living in vans and then there are people doing #vanlife,” Bruder says. Bruder believes #vanlife is more of a brand than a movement. This lifestyle is not to be confused with “#vanlife”-a hashtag that populates Instagram feeds and accompanies photos of largely younger people traveling in vans. “If the Great Recession was a crack in the system, Covid and climate change will be the chasm,” he said. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Bob Wells discussed the community of modern nomads, and why people are increasingly drawn to the movement. “Whether she was talking to me and being recorded or talking to somebody in a restaurant or some random people she just met because she always strikes up a conversation, she was always the same person.” “One of the things that made Linda such a pleasure to document as a journalist was that she has a certain unselfconsciousness about her,” Bruder says. The book is centered on Linda May, a 64-year-old grandmother living in her secondhand Jeep who is working temporary low-wage jobs in order to save money to fulfill her dream of finding land to build a sustainable “Earthship” home. She built off that reporting and three years later published Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. In 2014, Bruder wrote a cover story for Harper’s Magazine, “The End of Retirement,” which detailed the plight of older Americans who couldn’t afford to retire and worked temporary jobs for companies like Amazon. Here’s what to know about the real-life stories behind Nomadland, as well as the lifestyle at its center. TIME spoke to Bruder about the book and what it was like seeing the nomads she spent so much time with featured in a major movie. The movie has gained significant awards buzz since it became the first film ever to take home the top prizes from both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, recently collecting four Golden Globe nominations, including Best Director and Best Motion Picture (Drama). We follow her narrative, but she’s also this backbone, and all these other things spoke off of her story.” “She guides us down this road, and we meet all these people. “The filmmakers refer to Frances as a docent, which I really love,” Bruder tells TIME. Nomadland’s loosely unfolding narrative follows Fern as she navigates life on the road, working several jobs, meeting and befriending fellow nomads and adjusting to her new normal. The author spent months living in a secondhand van, which she named “Halen,” in an effort to better understand her subjects, like Linda May and Swankie, who play themselves in the movie. While researching the book, Bruder spent years following nomads across the country, and in doing so, showcased an invisible but significant portion of the American workforce. The 2017 nonfiction book is a sweeping account of post-recession contemporary nomads like the fictional Fern. 19, is based on a book of the same name by Jessica Bruder. Nomadland, written and directed by Chloé Zhao and hitting theaters and Hulu on Feb.
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