Reviews - Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.71 AVERAGE

cowboyrave's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

hpl's review

5.0

I love this book. It helped me understand a very important perspective. I think she writes in a brilliant way, and this is a book that many people in our society should read.

drkimburns's review

5.0

I want all of my higher ed colleagues to read this book.

katielovesbooks134's review against another edition

4.0

Libby audio, read by the author. She acknowledges #hardCORE in her ending! So funny. I checked the group and sure enough, she is there and has posted a bunch!

Stephanie Land’s uniquely bold voice, which we all grew to know and love in “Maid,” shines through in her second memoir. Reading her words always fills me with awe, sadness, righteous indignation, and incredible respect for the single moms who are struggling just to get food on the table for their babies. I will never forget reading about how difficult it is for single moms in poverty to receive government assistance in America. Land’s writing sometimes lacks polish, and I feel her editors could have saved her from some of the issues I saw: some repeated information (nothing that detracted from her story, but just enough instances to be confusing), clunky sentence structure, and an occasional loss of focus within a paragraph or chapter. Overall, I found “Class” to be brave, truthful, and, something I love about nonfiction and particularly memoir, to demand that readers see and understand Land in this particular season of her life.