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Maid by Stephanie Land 2019 Hardcover A Mother’s Struggle with Hard Work and Low Pay-image

Maid by Stephanie Land 2019 Hardcover A Mother’s Struggle with Hard Work and Low Pay

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LC Classification Number: HD6072.2.U5L36 2019 Topic: Women, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty & Homelessness, Parenting / Single Parent, Women's Studies Author: Stephanie Land Dewey Decimal: 306.87432092 Publication Year: 2019 Dewey Edition: 23 Format: Hardcover Intended Audience: Trade gtin13: 9780316505116 Item Length: 9.4 in brand: Grand Central Publishing Reviews: President Barack Obama, Summer Reading List (2019) Amazon: Top 100 Books of 2019, Best Nonfiction of 2019, Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2019 Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles , Best New Books to Read This Week Newsweek, Best Books of 2019 So Far CNN Travel , Books You Should Read This Summer Mental Floss , Summer Reading List BookTrib, B ooks That Will Make You Look Smart at the Beach!, "What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single-motherhood, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy, and people's lousy attitudes toward poor people... Land's prose is vivid and engaging... [A] tightly-focused, well-written memoir... an incredibly worthwhile read." -- Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir, "[Stephanie Land's Maid is a] vivid and visceral yet nearly unrelenting memoir... Her journey offers an illuminating read that should inspire outrage, hope, and change."-- Library Journal, "The next time you hear someone say they think poor people are lazy, hand them a copy of Maid ."-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, -President Barack Obama, Summer Reading List (2019) -Finalist for Goodreads Choice Awards, Memoir & Autobiography -Amazon: Top 100 Books of 2019, Best Nonfiction of 2019, Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2019 - New York Times , 100 Notable Books of 2019 -Washington Post , 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction (2019) -Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year -Glamour , Best Books of the Year -Time , 11 New Books to Read This January -Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January -Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 -USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss -Amazon, Best Books of the Month -Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 -The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month -San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year -People , Perfect for Your Book Club -Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 -Hello Giggles , Best New Books to Read This Week -Newsweek, Best Books of 2019 So Far -CNN Travel , Books You Should Read This Summer -Mental Floss , Summer Reading List -BookTribe, B ooks That Will Make You Look Smart at the Beach!, "Stephanie Land strips class divisions bare in herphenomenal memoir Maid , providing a profoundly important expose on theeconomy of being a single mother in America. This is the warrior cry from thetired, the poor, the huddled masses, reminding us to change our lives andremember how to see each other. Standing ovation. Not since BarbaraEhrenreich's Nickel and Dimed has the working woman's real life been sohonestly illuminated."-- Lidia Yuknavich, author of The Book of Joan, "A striking portrait of single-working-motherhood...an intimate look at the day-to-day reality of poverty in the United States...Land gives shape tothe depleting anxiety and isolation that accompany motherhood in poverty formillions of Americans."-- The Nation, "[A] vivid and visceral yet nearly unrelenting memoir... Her journey offers an illuminating read that should inspire outrage, hope, and change."-- Library Journal, "Thebook, with its unfussy prose and clear voice, holds you. It's one woman's storyof inching out of the dirt and how the middle class turns a blind eye to thepoverty lurking just a few rungs below -- and it's one worth reading."-- The Washington Post, President Barack Obama, Summer Reading List (2019) Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles , Best New Books to Read This Week Newsweek, Best Books of 2019 So Far CNN Travel , Books You Should Read This Summer Mental Floss , Summer Reading List, "Land's memoir forces readers to examine their implicitjudgments about what we mean by the value of hard work in America and societalexpectations of motherhood."-- Electric Lit, "Raw...Land [is] a gifted storyteller...Offers moments of levity...[ Maid ] shows we need to create an economy in which singlemotherhood and the risk of poverty do not go hand in hand."-- Ms. Magazine, Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles, Best New Books to Read This Week, "It is with beautiful prose that Land chronicles her time working as a housekeeper to make ends meet...Captur[es] the experience of hardworking Americans who make little money and are often invisible to their employers."-- Boston.com, 20 Books to Read in 2019, " Maid is a testament to a young mother's survival skills - a constantly shifting balance of back-breaking labor, single-parenting responsibilities, complying with rules and regulations, college course-work, attitude adjustments and diplomacy on all fronts... The book is a gift of hope and joy for anyone lucky enough to see beyond blame."-- Wicked Local, " Maid delves into her time working for the upper middle class in the service industry, and in it, uncovers the true strength of the human spirit."-- San Diego Entertainer, Books to Kick Off Your New Year, "[ Maid is a] heartfelt and powerful debut memoir.... Land's love for her daughter... shines brightly through the pages of this beautiful, uplifting story of resilience and survival." -- Publishers Weekly, "Takes readers inside the gritty, unglamorous life of the underpaid, overworked people who serve the upper-middle class for a living."-- Parade, "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 2019 Summer Reading List", " Maid provides an important look at themorass of difficulties faced by the working poor."-- Elle Magazine, "In a perfect world, Maid would become requiredreading in schools across the country."-- North Bay Bohemian, " Maid is an important work of journalism that offers an insightful and unique perspective on a segment of the working poor from someone who has lived it."-- Amazon Book Review, "It's as much a story about resilience as it is a hard look at current systems in place to help impoverished people and how hard they are to navigate. It's eye-opening and inspiring--a definite must-read!"-- Style Blueprint, "More than any book in recent memory, Land nails thesheer terror that comes with being poor, the exhausting vigilance of knowingthat any misstep or twist of fate will push you deeper into the hole."-- The Boston Globe, "For readers who believe individuals living below the poverty line are lazy and/or intellectually challenged, this memoir is a stark, necessary corrective.... [T]he narrative also offers a powerful argument for increasing government benefits for the working poor during an era when most benefits are being slashed.... An important memoir that should be required reading for anyone who has never struggled with poverty."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Maid-part Educated , part Hillbilly Elegy -is aneye-opening portrait of how privilege and the female working class cancommingle."-- Glamour, Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles , Best New Books to Read This Week Newsweek, Best Books of 2019 So Far CNN Travel , Books You Should Read This Summer, "In a country whose frayed safety net gets less policy attention than the marginal tax rate, Land is the anomaly not only in surviving to tell the tale - and in telling it with such compelling economy."-- Vulture, 8 New Books You Should Read this January, "For readers who believe individuals living below the poverty line are lazy and/or intellectually challenged, this memoir is a stark, necessary corrective.... [T]he narrative also offers a powerful argument for increasing government benefits for the working poor during an era when most benefits are being slashed.... An important memoir that should be required reading for anyone who has never struggled with poverty."-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review, "If this memoir doesn't shake you up and give you a stronger understanding of poverty in America, your heart must be made of coal. Stephanie Land, who spent years in poverty, clues you in to what it's really like to live in a shelter. It's hard to think that a white paper or TV documentary could say it as well as she does."-- Florida Times-Union, "An empowering story of a woman determined to pull herself up in life through which we all feel stronger!" -- Gretchen Carlson, Politico, "[A] heartfelt and powerful debut memoir.... Land's love for her daughter... shines brightly through the pages of this beautiful, uplifting story of resilience and survival." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Stephanie Land strips class divisions bare in herphenomenal memoir Maid , providing a profoundly important expose on theeconomy of being a single mother in America. This is the warrior cry from thetired, the poor, the huddled masses, reminding us to change our lives andremember how to see each other. Standing ovation. Not since BarbaraEhrenreich's Nickel and Dimed has the working woman's real life been sohonestly illuminated."-- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, "The particulars of Land's struggle are sobering, butit's the impression of precariousness that is most memorable."-- The New Yorker, Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles , Best New Books to Read This Week Newsweek, Best Books of 2019 So Far CNN Travel , Books You Should Read This Summer Mental Floss , Summer Reading List, Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles, Best New Books to Read This Week, "[An] example of the determination and grace [is] ondisplay in her memoir, in which she renders vividly the back-breaking and oftensurreal work of deep-cleaning strangers' homes while navigating the bafflingbureaucracies of government assistance programs."-- Salon, "Fascinating...Communicates clearly the challenges of a marginal existence as a single mother living in poverty as she sought to provide a stable and predictable home for her daughter in a situation that was anything but stable and predictable."-- The Columbus Dispatch, Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles, Best New Books to Read This Week --, Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019, President Barack Obama, Summer Reading List (2019) Forbes , Most Anticipated Books of the Year Glamour , Best Books of the Year Time , 11 New Books to Read This January Vulture , 8 New Books You Should Read This January Thrillist , All the Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019 USA Today , 5 New Books Not to Miss Amazon, Best Books of the Month Detroit News , New Books to Look Forward to in 2019 The Missoulian , Best Books of the Month San Diego Entertainer , Books to Kick Off Your New Year People , Perfect for Your Book Club Boston.com, 20 Books to Look Out for in 2019 Hello Giggles , Best New Books to Read This Week Newsweek, Best Books of 2019 So Far CNN Travel , Books You Should Read This Summer Mental Floss , Summer Reading List BookTrib, B ooks That Will Make You Look Smart at the Beach!, " Maid is a beautiful book and a sad book and even, at times, a joyful book--a story of a mother's love for her daughter--but most of all it's an important book about the U.S. economy and what it does to people."-- Daily Kos, "[Land's] book has the needed quality of reversing thedirection of the gaze. Some people who employ domestic labor will read heraccount. Will they see themselves in her descriptions of her clients? Will theyoffer their employees the meager respect Land fantasizes about? Land survivedthe hardship of her years as a maid, her body exhausted and her brain filledwith bleak arithmetic, to offer her testimony. It's worth listening to." -- New York Times Book Review, "[ Maid is a] heartfelt and powerful debut memoir.... Land's love for her daughter... shines brightly through the pages of this beautiful, uplifting story of resilience and survival." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, "In writing about the spaces outside of her work,though, Land gives shape tothe depleting anxiety and isolation that accompany motherhood in poverty formillions of Americans."-- The Nation Book Title: Maid : Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive ISBN-10: 0316505110 Item Height: 1 in ISBN-13: 9780316505116 LCCN: 2018-954908 Language: English Item Weight: 16.7 Oz Synopsis: NEW 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. Item Width: 6.4 in Genre: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Number of Pages: 288 Pages

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Used - Acceptable This item is fairly worn, but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn corners, bends, tears, small stains, and partial water damage. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing, if applicable. Pages may include excessive notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive [ Land, Stephanie ] Use ISBN-13 : 9780316505116 Book

  1. This book is a powerful, eye-opening read about resilience and struggle. Even though the copy shows some wear—like minor stains and bent corners—it’s completely readable and delivers the same gripping story. Perfect if you want an affordable way to experience Stephanie Land’s raw, honest memoir about poverty and perseverance. Great value for the impact it delivers!

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