Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream a love letter to the

a love letter to the restorative and life-changing effects of good wine and good hospitality

Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced profoundly life-changing events

It would take hitting bottom at a new restaurant and restorative trips to the vineyards where she could feel closest to the wine she loved for Victoria to re-emerge

a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom

Inspired by those connections

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream a love letter to theBootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart Publisher: Ecco Press March 01 2023 EAN: 9780063028005 ISBN: 006302800X Synopsis: An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief