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dinamurray73 's review for:
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
by Stephanie Land
I did not enjoy this book, this single mom of the past 17 years was angry throughout most of it. I would give it a 4 star for writing, and a 2 star for enjoyment. It described the loneliness of single parenthood well, I will say it had that going for it. I agree with the author that much of our system or society is not fair when it comes to the treatment of single mothers, but she just seemed so immature to me. She decides to have another child when she cannot afford the first one, and then becomes angry at her friends when they are not as supportive or as generous donating their time as she would like. She whines about not having time to herself, and for not having enough opportunities to go out with friends, to date, to have a life. She was 35 and wanting to hang out in bars with the 21 year old kids she went to college with. Guess what, you are a single mom, suck it up, it stinks. I did not go anywhere for about a decade, no joke. Her book Maid was a step in the right direction for the average person to understand the grind and injustices of poverty, but I think this book is going to have most people thinking that her poverty is the result of her own dumb choices.