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Sarah Smarsh

This person grows up on a farm in Kansas and discusses throughout the book personal experiences and the culture's perception of people who are poor, white, and rural.

Jeannie

This person has a father who is constantly in trouble with the law, has a first child as a teenager, and struggles constantly with poverty and lack of opportunity.

Betty

This person is married and divorced many times and often has to find ways to get out of physically abusive relationships. This person eventually marries a farmer many years older and, for a time, lives a more stable and peaceful life.

Arnie

This person is a farmer in Kansas who is loved and well-respected by neighbors, peers, and many family members.

Nick Smarsh

This person, primarily a carpenter by trade, is a hard worker who the author remembers as being mostly kind and compassionate.

Chris

This person, a...

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