Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless with Kids in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143036784)

Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs of D.C. But the comfortable life she was building quickly fell apart. At age twenty-four Michelle was suddenly single, homeless, and living out of a car with her three small children. She waitressed night shifts while her kids slept out in the diner's parking lot. She saved her tips in the glove compartment, and set aside a few quarters every week for truck stop showers for her and the kids.

With startling humor and honesty, Kennedy describes the frustration of never having enough money for a security deposit on an apartment--but having too much to qualify for public assistance. Without A Net is a story of hope. Michelle Kennedy survives on her wits, a little luck, and a lot of courage. And in the end, she triumphs.

Author: Michelle Kennedy
ISBN-10: 0143036785
ISBN-13: 9780143036784
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.12w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/12/2006 pg. 32
Foreword 07/01/2005 pg. 1