No Home for You Here: A Memoir of Class and Culture

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No Home for You Here is a memoir of a life lived in the shadow of Ronald Reagan. Raised in rural Ohio, Adam Theron-Lee Rensch tells a story of a millennial trying, and failing, to leave behind the shame of growing up poor in the middle of nowhere. Interweaving personal narrative and political criticism with recent social and political history, No Home for You Here shows how the interrelationship of class, culture and identity stifles working-class solidarity by constructing an imagined cultural divide that those in power use to maintain the status quo. Part of the Field Notesseries,No Home for You Here is a timely, passionate call for class consciousness in an era of economic crisis and staggering inequality.

'Rensch tells his story in beautiful prose, and evinces a commitment to humanity, justice, and a different sort of society that is all too rare today.' - Bhaskar Sunkara, author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

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A well-told account of inequality and the lack of social mobility. * Socialist Standard *
Rensch weaves a portrait of his life and that of his family and friends in rural northwest Ohio into the picture of late capitalism and its accompanying neoliberalism. * H-Socialisms *
An eye-opening cultural analysis, No Home for You Here shows how the definition of the "working class" pervading the popular imagination in the past few decades obscures this groups identity primarily as workers . . . this refreshingly accessible book tells the very personal and self-reflective tale of how Rensch came to really understand class as Marxists do, as a relation of capitalism . . . Many readers will see themselves and their loved ones described somewhere in these brutally honest and relatable pages . . . The personal, nuanced-yet-straightforward understanding of the working class No Home for You Here offers matters for anyone who wants to understand not just US politics as it currently plays out, but also the prospects for an emancipatory politics in the future. * June Ann Jones, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch tells his story in beautiful prose, and evinces a commitment to humanity, justice, and a different sort of society that is all too rare today. * Bhaskar Sunkara, author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality *

Author Bio

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch was born and raised in Northwest Ohio. He writes regularly on topics ranging from class inequality and contemporary politics to pop culture and aesthetics. He lives in Chicago.