![]() With astute consideration, this expansive and intimate accumulation asks the questions that touch all our lives.” -Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen ![]() ![]() “A major achievement. Having and Being Had, rather than leading through narrative, turns individual words and phrases, like capitalism, consumers, great America, husbandry, art, and work, into fields of inquiry in order to frame a life. With references to Adam Smith and Dire Straits, Karl Marx and Scooby-Doo, she turns what is essentially a chronicle of white guilt and anxious privilege into a thoughtful and nuanced meditation on the compromises inherent in having a comfortable life.” - The Wall Street Journal Biss’s prose in general, is the spare and engaging way she interrogates such complex and abstract concepts. ![]() Keenly aware of her privilege as a white, well-educated woman who has benefited from a wide network of family and friends, Biss has written a book that is, in effect, the opposite of capitalism in its willingness to acknowledge that everything she’s accomplished rests on the labor of others.” - Associated Press ![]()
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