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Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America / Linda Tirado.

by Tirado, Linda.

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2014]

362.50973 T596h

Poor -- United States

Poverty -- United States.

Social classes -- United States.

9780399171987 (hc.)

0399171983 (hc.)

xxiv, 195 pages ; 24 cm

An examination of what it means to be poor in America today. "I've been waiting for this book for a long time. I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed in America, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." -from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like-on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should. Linda Tirado's essay "Why I make terrible decisions" was read by more than six million people, and can be read on the Huffington Post website" --Provided by publisher.

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