RaveThe Washington Post[Goldstein] offers us a poignant, fugue-like account of the gradual absorption of this shock ... Goldstein gives the reader a gripping account of the GM layoff, the real loss it caused and the victims’ heroic resilience in adapting to that loss. By the end of this moving book, I wanted her to write a sequel on what might have been done to prevent the damage in the first place ... The subtitle of this important and rarely told tale reads: 'an American story.' And so it is: Between 2004 and 2009, more than 7 million workers were hurt in 40,000 mass layoffs.
