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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Gold Country

Gold Country

Pravin, Vanesha

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 2, 2026

ISBN10: 0814259979
ISBN13: 9780814259979
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Nov 2 2026
Pages: 104
Language: English
Vignettes of working-class life create a panoramic portrait of the emotional wages of surviving in America

In Gold Country, Vanesha Pravin crafts indelible vignettes of labor, race, and contemporary existence that together offer a panoramic view of today's United States. Through each life that she conveys line by startling line, she traces the disparity between aspiration and reality when it comes to the American dream: an undocumented worker waits on a celebrity, a government contractor compromises his integrity to secure the future of his children, a career waiter is haunted by the contrast between his inner life and reality, and an orderly steals credit cards for a fix. Wistful and weary, her protagonists wrestle with thwarted dreams and personal shame, but in stitching together a patchwork from their lives, Pravin asks us all to confront the wider realities of deprivation, greed, and their insidious influence on how we function as a society. Gold Country offers a gorgeously nuanced portrait of working life in a supposedly democratic country, airing hard truths about labor, complicity, and the rifts between us.

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