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"The book...combines narrative storytelling, historical research and sociological theory to paint a complete and compelling picture."

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Sandpoint Reader

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"In clean and engaging prose, Pilgeram describes the heartache of a disenfranchised population, while also delivering a tough scholarly analysis."

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Bookmonger

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"Through extensive interviews and archival work, this sociological study draws on the descriptive power of ethnographic writing to trace the path of rural development in an engaging and accessible book."

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Choice

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"[I]t speaks to urgent changes in the contemporary West...the book's closing reminder that we can imagine, and enact, different futures is a hopeful and necessary one."

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Western American Literature

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"Pilgeram’s work constitutes an excellent intervention into the problems associated with rural gentrification."

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Contemporary Sociology

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"Pilgeram's book is a thoroughly engaging, well researched, and important exploration of a type of gentrification often ignored and misunderstood in the broader social discussion of displacement."

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Growth and Change