Growing Up Blue-Collar

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>You don't have to come from privilege to have a story worth telling. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Growing Up Blue-Collar: An Uncertain Beginning</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Ross Alan Bachelder delivers a raw reflective and deeply human memoir that journeys from the back roads of southern Michigan to the halls of academia-and all the tension in between. This isn't a rags-to-riches tale. It's rags-to-reason. A reckoning with class culture and the quiet questions that shape us. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Ross grew up in a world of work boots layaway shopping and silent ambition. He wrestled with the feeling of being too curious for his surroundings and too different to fit in. Through art intellect and grit he carved a path that defied expectations but never forgot where he came from. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>This book is for: </span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The thinkers raised in towns that didn't value thinking. </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The dreamers who read books in secret. </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The misfits who asked why? when everyone else said don't make a scene. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Inside you'll find: </span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Honest reflections on poverty identity and belonging </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Sharp insights into the working-class experience </span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A voice that's equal parts poetic defiant and deeply relatable </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Whether you grew up blue-collar or just want to understand it better this memoir offers more than nostalgia; it offers truth. And sometimes truth is the most revolutionary thing of all. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>You weren't meant to stay silent. You were meant to be seen.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p>