Living Things by Munir Hachemi Groundswell Speaker 2024 Misery made him rich

Misery made him rich

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author of My Past is a Foreign Country

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the protagonist is confronted with social conventions when she falls into a mental illness that resembles the author's own reality

Living Things by Munir Hachemi Groundswell Speaker 2024 Misery made him richLiving Things follows four recent graduates Munir, G, Ernesto and lex who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things dont go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living on a campsite, where a general sense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment, capitalism, immigration and the mass production of living things, all