Description:
Downwardly Mobile is a sociopolitical memoir tracing one family's fall from riches to rags. Set in suburban Chicago, it follows a family undone by denied insurance claims and the 2008-09 crash, leaving them near homelessness.
Brief description: Jane Vermeulen is a former urban planner and writer for the Chicago Tribune and for assorted Eastern Seaboard business publications. She splits her life between the Appalachian Mountains and Southwest Florida where she lives with her current husband and three rescue cats.
Review Quotes:
"The highly readable and entertaining Downwardly Mobile is something of an epitaph for the American dream. The author exposes through her unrelenting and almost improbable career, health, financial and family setbacks, how hard-working Americans are often punished for "playing by the rules." Meanwhile, health insurers, employers, educational institutions and government programs often reward and entitle the opposite: indolence, lack of effort and apathy.
Downwardly Mobile is a must read for anyone who has been beset by negative financial and social circumstances despite their best efforts. It is not your imagination says the author; the system is rigged."
Martha Rosenberg
Health reporter and author
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