Femme de chambre : travail acharné, bas salaire et volonté d'une mère de survivre à la terre, Stephanie Very Go
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit. Book jacket.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
0316505099
ISBN-13
9780316505093
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309325358
Product Key Features
Book Title
Maid : Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty & Homelessness, Women's Studies, Parenting / Single Parent
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
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"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, "The next time you hear someone say they think poor people are lazy, hand them a copy of Maid ."-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "In a perfect world, Maid would become required reading in schools across the country."-- North Bay Bohemian, " Maid provides an important look at the morass of difficulties faced by the working poor."-- Elle Magazine, "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, "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, "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 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 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, "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", "Stephanie Land strips class divisions bare in her phenomenal memoir Maid , providing a profoundly important expose on the economy of being a single mother in America. This is the warrior cry from the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, reminding us to change our lives and remember how to see each other. Standing ovation. Not since Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed has the working woman's real life been so honestly illuminated."-- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, " 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, "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, "Maid-part Educated , part Hillbilly Elegy -is an eye-opening portrait of how privilege and the female working class can commingle."-- Glamour, "[Land's] book has the needed quality of reversing the direction of the gaze. Some people who employ domestic labor will read her account. Will they see themselves in her descriptions of her clients? Will they offer their employees the meager respect Land fantasizes about? Land survived the hardship of her years as a maid, her body exhausted and her brain filled with bleak arithmetic, to offer her testimony. It's worth listening to." -- New York Times Book Review, "An empowering story of a woman determined to pull herself up in life through which we all feel stronger!" -- Gretchen Carlson, Politico, "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, "The particulars of Land's struggle are sobering, butit's the impression of precariousness that is most memorable."-- The New Yorker, "[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, "Raw...Land [is] a gifted storyteller...Offers moments of levity...[ Maid ] shows we need to create an economy in which single motherhood and the risk of poverty do not go hand in hand."-- Ms. Magazine, 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, "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
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