Dirty Kids

Name: Dirty Kids
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SKU: 9781771643047
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Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads

By Chris Urquhart

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At twenty-two, Chris Urquhart abandoned a middle-class lifestyle to live among young nomads across America. Dirty Kids recounts her immersive three-year journey alongside runaways, crust punks, hippies, and dropouts, combining candid prose and striking photographs to depict their gritty, alternative life. Amidst freedom and fellowship, Urquhart confronts harsh realities including mental health struggles and violence, revealing a radical culture of sharing and non-capitalistic community that profoundly reshapes her worldview.
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This book appeals to readers interested in countercultural lifestyles, travel narratives, and social realities beyond mainstream society. It suits those seeking a raw, honest exploration of freedom, community, and survival on the margins.

A gritty, thrilling portrait of America's underground traveling community.

National feature and review coverage targeting dailies across America Pitching talk radio interviews Excerpts to alternative culture and literary outlets including VICE.com, n+1, Dissent, and College publications

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Dirty Kids is "an illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." - Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of Man

At age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads for a magazine feature. Captivated, she followed them for three more years. In honest prose interspersed with photographs portraying the grimy beauty of nomadic life, Dirty Kids tells the story of how Urquhart lived alongside runaways, crust punks, and dropouts, hippies, Deadheads, and Rainbows in an attempt to belong in their world.

But the road took its toll, and along the way, Urquhart found suffering alongside the freedom—mental health issues, substance abuse, and fears of violence marred her journey. Despite all that, the warm, welcoming family of travelers and their radically alternative culture of sharing, generosity, and non-capitalistic collaboration forever changed her outlook on life and her understanding of freedom.

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Praised by Ted Conover as "an illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey," Dirty Kids offers stark, poetic insight into the lives of contemporary nomads. Peter Conners describes it as facing "the bliss of freedom, the terror of loneliness, and the hard but true realities" of life on the rails. Ken Ilgunas commends Urquhart's blend of poetic flair and journalistic objectivity in revealing a seldom-seen slice of America.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781771643047

Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 September 2017

Country: Canada

Imprint: Greystone Books,Canada

Illustration: B&W photographs

Contributors:

Foreword by Micah White
Photographs by Kitra Cahana

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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Chris Urquhart Education & Reference Non-Fiction Travel & Adventure

About the Author

Chris Urquhart's writing has appeared in Adbusters, COLORS, Maisonneuve, the Santiago Times, and Esquire Russia. Chris lives in Toronto, Ontario.

works as a documentary photographer and videographer. She has chronicled the daily lives of teens at a Texas high school, told the story of a Venezuelan cult, and followed a group of nomadic youth across the U.S.

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