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A review by frooblie
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
3.0
This has been known in our house as, "that book that you shouldn't read in October," because we're all seasonal employees, and all get laid off at the end of October every year. And yet I always start reading it...in October. It's a terrible idea, but this year, I made it all the way though!
I was going to say that I didn't feel like the book said anything new, but I did appreciate the time the author spent with the different characters. It give a fuller picture of each situation than I had through superficially knowing people in tenuous circumstances. Still, if you have your eyes open, very of this book will be shocking. I think that's why it's so hard to read in October; it's just a little too real.
The book's also, at this point, kind of old. It would be interesting to read a follow-up.
I was going to say that I didn't feel like the book said anything new, but I did appreciate the time the author spent with the different characters. It give a fuller picture of each situation than I had through superficially knowing people in tenuous circumstances. Still, if you have your eyes open, very of this book will be shocking. I think that's why it's so hard to read in October; it's just a little too real.
The book's also, at this point, kind of old. It would be interesting to read a follow-up.