Billerica Public Library

Rust, a memoir of steel and grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach

eng

autobiography

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non fiction

Rust

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Eliese Colette Goldbach

a memoir of steel and grit

To ArcelorMittal Steel, Eliese is known as : Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it&;s also her only shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of AmericaIn Rust, Eliese Colette Goldbach brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nationFaced with the financial promise of a steelworker's paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day

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