CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Upon the advice of a former student, I watched the award-winning film Nomadland last week. Nomadland, written and directed by Chloé Zhao, is based on a book of the same name by Jessica Bruder. The 2017 nonfiction book is a sweeping account of post-recession contemporary nomads like the fictional Fern. While researching the book, Bruder spent years following nomads across the country, and in…