My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts Eula Biss writes, the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after. Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchangesin libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fencesshe examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by the New York Times as a writer who advances from all sides, like a chess player, Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of accumulation and consumption, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyonc to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself and her class, In what have we invested?
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🗸 Author(s): Eula Biss
🗸 Title: Having and Being Had
🗸 Rating : 4.3 from 5 stars (265 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
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