She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why.

By FRANCESCA MARI
NYT Book Review
In “Heartland,” Sarah Smarsh offers a cleareyed account of hardscrabble life on the Great Plains — a pattern that in her family goes back generations.
Published date: September 10, 2018 at 10:00PM
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