On one level, this book shows its origins in magazine articles as it skips around a bunch of views of the same topic, and repeats itself a few times (the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous is introduced several times, for instance), but it works because the subject matter is so strong. I'd not seen the film of this, so while I knew about people living in vans, I wasn't aware of just how many there were in the US, nor how old a lot of them were. It's a recreation of a past way of life on the road, but also a signal of what awaits us all, living with less and less and heading back and forth across the country at the beck and call of billionaires and corporations that only see humans as another factor of production, there to be exploited as much as possible. It should be a call to action, but I fear it hasn't been...