Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education (ARC Paperback 2023)

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Seller: meetyourbook ✉️ (256) 100%, Location: San Jose, California, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 355372894191 Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education (ARC Paperback 2023). Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education (ARC Paperback 2023). -- Brand New, Unread, Collectible item. -- Dispatch within one business day. -- THIS IS AN ADVANCED READER'S COPY. BY PURCHASING THIS BOOK YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS ITEM, AND UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE PURCHASING. From the   New York Times  bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after  Maid .

When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir  Maid , she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called “an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor” ( People ). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series  Maid , which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions.

Maid   was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In  Class , Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties.

Class   paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition.  Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture?  In clear, candid, and moving prose,  Class   grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds.

Review "A beautiful memoir that's an honest portrayal [of] persistence and life and writing and children. Stephanie Land did the work, and it shows."  --  ―Neil Gaiman

Select Praise for  Maid: 

"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"

"More than any book in recent memory, Land nails the sheer terror that comes with being poor, the exhausting vigilance of knowing that any misstep or twist of fate will push you deeper into the hole."
— The Boston Globe

"Stephanie Land's memoir [ Maid ] is a bracing one."
— The Atlantic

"An eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor."
— People , Perfect for Your Book Club

"The particulars of Land's struggle are sobering, but it's the impression of precariousness that is most memorable."
— The New Yorker

"[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
 

 

About the Author Stephanie Land is the author of the  New York Times   bestseller  Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,  called “a testimony…worth listening to,” by  The New York Times  and inspiration for the Netflix series  Maid . Her work has been featured in  The New York Times ,   The Guardian ,  The Atlantic , and many other outlets. Her writing focuses on social and economic justice and parenting under the poverty line. She is a frequent speaker at colleges and national advocacy organizations. ***** Return Process * Please contact us using eBay Messaging before returning your order. * Returns without prior authorization will not be refunded. Return Requirements * Returned merchandise must be in the same condition in which it was received. * No return credit will be given if an item returned is in used condition, or has missing or damaged pages. * Please adequately package return shipments. No credit will be given if item is damaged in return shipment. *****
  • Condition: Brand New
  • Book Title: Class
  • Narrative Type: Nonfiction
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Original Language: English
  • Intended Audience: Adults
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Publication Year: 2023
  • Type: Novel
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Item Height: 9 in
  • Author: Stephanie Land
  • Features: Advance Readers Copy
  • Genre: Biographies & True Stories
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Topic: Memoir, Sociology of Class, Women Biographies
  • Item Width: 6 in.
  • Number of Pages: 286

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