Maid
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Per una serie di scelte sbagliate, Stephanie Land, diventata madre da poco e costretta a fuggire da un compagno violento, si ritrova in una condizione di povertà assoluta. Mentre lavora duramente per tirare avanti, destreggiandosi tra una serie di sfiancanti lavori domestici, Stephanie scrive. Scrive le storie che nessuno racconta: quelle dei milioni di americani costretti a fare anche due, tre lavori per sopravvivere, a studiare di notte – come lei – con la speranza di un riscatto, a districare quel groviglio di norme e vincoli spesso contraddittori da cui dipende l’assistenza governativa. Perché, in America, essere poveri equivale a essere colpevoli. Ma Stephanie è caparbia, non accetta quella condanna, ed è convinta che, attraverso la scrittura, potrà aprire un varco verso il futuro non solo per sé, ma anche per la figlia. E alla fine ci riesce. Da questo libro è stata tratta la popolare serie Netflix.
- ISBN: 8833210359
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 336
- Data di uscita: 07-03-2019
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“I WORK 25 HOURS A WEEK AS A PROFESSIONAL CLEANER, BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO PAY THE BILLS.” (Page 131) Going into this book, I so badly wanted to come out rooting for Stephanie Land, but I keep coming back to that quote above and cannot wrap my head around what should be “surprising” about her story. A Leggi tutto
This book is going to garner a range of reactions when it’s published. 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 Leggi tutto
I appreciate the emphasis on what it’s like to be in poverty, from the logistical struggles to the emotional turmoil that comes with being financially burdened. Not to mention the stigma that gets associated with people who depend on government assistance and the homeless. My upbringing has fostered Leggi tutto
I wanted to like this book. I was raised by a single mother with two kids after fleeing horrific abuse. We were on government assistance and food stamps, and I was on free or reduced lunch all the way through my adolescent years. My GED holding mother worked early mornings, late nights, and took eve Leggi tutto
oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2019! what will happen? ********************************************** fulfilling book riot's 2018 read harder challenge task #14: A book of social science this one might be more memoir than social science, but it's ehrenreich-a Leggi tutto
DNF on page 260, at 96% I tried really, really hard to finish the 2019 memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," by Stephanie Land. But I couldn't force myself to read the final chapter. I just hated this book too much, and the idea of reading another page brought me agony. I Leggi tutto
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