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Reading Hammer Head, like consuming Cheryl Strayeds Wild, feels like a crucial education.Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment WeeklyNina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on CraigslistCarpenters Assistant Women strongly encouraged to applydespite being a Classics major who couldnt tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in Hammer Head she tells the rich and entertaining story of becoming a carpenter.Writing with infectious curiosity, MacLaughlin describes the joys and frustrations of making things by hand, reveals the challenges of working as a woman in an occupation that is 99 percent male, and explains how manual labor changed the way she sees the world.



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