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Maid - A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick and now a major Netflix series! (Hardcover)
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Maid - A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick and now a major Netflix series! (Hardcover)
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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY
MACDOWELL. BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019. BBC RADIO 4
BOOK OF THE WEEK. Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie
Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty
exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by
international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter
learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single mum,
determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head, Stephanie Land
worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide
for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what
it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society. As
she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent,
scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour
jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted
housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie
wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The
stories of the overworked and underpaid. Written in honest,
heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the
underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's
like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,'
Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the 'servant'
worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their
own lives and the lives of their children.
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