Rust

Movingly and candidly told … At this most divisive moment in American politics, we could all learn from her example - Financial Times Weekend

Eliese Colette Goldbach uses formal experiment, broken narrative, and a voice that admits doubt and questions the terms of its telling to fight silencing. Masterful form is often a question of well-managed ruptur - Leslie Jamison

“A female steelworker’s soulful portrait of industrial life. Goldbach’s evocative prose paints a Dantean vision of the mill…but she discovers in the plant’s quirky, querulous employees an ethic of empathy and solidarity that bridges ideological divides. The result is an insightful and ultimately reassuring take on America’s working class - Publisher’s Weekly

Elements of Tara Westover’s Educated… The mill comes to represent something holy to [Eliese] because it is made not of steel but of people. - New York Times Book Review

Beautiful - Charlie LeDuff

There have been a lot of books written about life in industrial cities in the Midwest, but relatively few written by people who actually live in them, and few so heartfelt and unsparing. Rust is at once a unique memoir and a broad indictment of America’s broken promise that anyone who came of age in the 21st century will find painfully familiar - Sarah Kendzior

Rust is a soulful telling of America’s stubborn and forgotten core. Deeply honest and defying easy sentimentality, this book heralds the arrival of a true talent - Adam Chandler

Goldbach turns in a gritty memoir of working in a steel mill while wrestling with the world beyond…. An affecting, unblinking portrait of working-class life - Kirkus Reviews