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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316505116)
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xNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the government programs that provided her housing, but that doubled as halfway houses. The aloof government employees who called her lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feel lucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, to eventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients' lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path. Her compassionate, unflinching writing as a journalist gives voice to the "servant" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not her alone. It is an inspiring testament to the strength, determination, and ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
Author: Stephanie Land
ISBN-10: 0316505110
ISBN-13: 9780316505116
Publisher: Legacy Lit
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 01/29/2019
BookPage 02/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2018
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2018 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2018 pg. 61
Booklist 12/01/2018 pg. 6
Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 78
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the government programs that provided her housing, but that doubled as halfway houses. The aloof government employees who called her lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feel lucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, to eventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients' lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path. Her compassionate, unflinching writing as a journalist gives voice to the "servant" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not her alone. It is an inspiring testament to the strength, determination, and ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
Author: Stephanie Land
ISBN-10: 0316505110
ISBN-13: 9780316505116
Publisher: Legacy Lit
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 01/29/2019
BookPage 02/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2018
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2018 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2018 pg. 61
Booklist 12/01/2018 pg. 6
Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 78
By Stephanie Land
xStephanie Land is the instant New York Times bestselling author of "MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," the inspiration for the Netflix Limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a great one."
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."
-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List
Stephanie's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many other outlets. Her writing focuses on social and economic justice. Follow her everywhere @stepville and visit stepville.com.
BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in Virginia.
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."
-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List
Stephanie's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many other outlets. Her writing focuses on social and economic justice. Follow her everywhere @stepville and visit stepville.com.
BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in Virginia.
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