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Land, Stephanie, 1978-
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Land, Stephanie, 1978-
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Women college students -- United States -- Biography.
Low-income college students -- United States -- Biography.
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
Social classes -- United States.
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Land, Stephanie, 1978-
Land, Stephanie, 1978-
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Women college students -- United States -- Biography.
Low-income college students -- United States -- Biography.
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
Social classes -- United States.
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Class : a memoir / Stephanie Land.
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Land, Stephanie, 1978-
One Signal Publishers/Atria, c2023.
Call #:
305
.5690973
L253c
Subjects
Land, Stephanie, 1978-
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Women college students -- United States -- Biography.
Low-income college students -- United States -- Biography.
Women household employees -- United States -- Biography.
Social classes -- United States.
ISBN:
9781982151393 (hc.)
Edition:
1st One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover ed.
Description:
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"A memoir of motherhood, hunger, and higher education" --Cover.
Summary:
"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."--Barnes&Noble.
"Bestseller Land (Maid) catalogs her experiences juggling housecleaning jobs, childcare, and graduate school while battling poverty in this frank and captivating memoir. In lucid prose (“My whole body ached to give her more. She deserved ballet lessons if she wanted them and for someone to show her that it was okay to dream”), Land details the many tightropes she walked to balance her dreams of becoming a writer with what she “needed to do to survive as a single parent who struggled to make ends meet in endless, sometimes impossible ways.” After escaping an abusive relationship in her late 20s, Land moved from Washington State to Missoula, Mont., with her five-year-old daughter to pursue an MFA in writing. In the fall of her final year at the University of Montana, she unexpectedly got pregnant again and decided to keep the baby, to the consternation of the likely father. Land viscerally conjures the relentless grind she faced to obtain governmental aid and increased child support to cover food, heat, car repairs, childcare, and student loans while fighting to keep her daughter happy and her unborn child healthy without sacrificing her own professional dreams. Eye-opening and heartrending, this will provide succor for readers who’ve faced similar hardships and essential education for anyone who hasn’t. It’s another stirring personal history from one of the foremost chroniclers of 21st-century economic anxiety."--Publishers Weekly.
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 in The States.
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Memoirs.
Nonfiction novels.
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