Pushed Out

"The book...combines narrative storytelling, historical research and sociological theory to paint a complete and compelling picture."

"In clean and engaging prose, Pilgeram describes the heartache of a disenfranchised population, while also delivering a tough scholarly analysis."

"Through extensive interviews and archival work, this sociological study draws on the descriptive power of ethnographic writing to trace the path of rural development in an engaging and accessible book."

"[I]t speaks to urgent changes in the contemporary West...the book's closing reminder that we can imagine, and enact, different futures is a hopeful and necessary one."

"Pilgeram’s work constitutes an excellent intervention into the problems associated with rural gentrification."

"Pilgeram's book is a thoroughly engaging, well researched, and important exploration of a type of gentrification often ignored and misunderstood in the broader social discussion of displacement."

"A fascinating and well-documented case study of rural gentrification in the amenity West."

"A great read. Makes articulate and compelling points about capitalist expansion, social inequality, and the misplaced goals of the US environmental movement."

"Few people understand the textures of rural Idaho the way Ryanne Pilgeram does — or writes about them in a way that's this accessible, sharp, and clear-eyed. If we want to understand the fear, love, loyalty, and anger that undergirds rural life today, one place to begin is with Dover, a town whose past and present comes alive in Pilgeram's writing. Pushed Out is a case study, but it is also a celebration, a history, a requiem — and above else, a masterwork."