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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
4.0
Class by Stephanie Land
A thought-provoking narrative of a working single mother attending college and providing for herself and her child while living in the poverty class.
The reader wants to scream, demand, and vote for universal childcare, access to college, food, healthcare, and safe shelter. As well as a legal and bureaucratic system that gives assistance first and questions later.
How is one to live while food insecure, in school, working, and needing support but can’t get it because every single thing in America is set up to condemn the poor rather than support and uplift the human?
Land’s second book, Class, is an extension of Maid, the revolutionary exposé on the fallacy of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps when the weight of society’s foot smushes you like a crunchy leaf on the sidewalk.
A thought-provoking narrative of a working single mother attending college and providing for herself and her child while living in the poverty class.
The reader wants to scream, demand, and vote for universal childcare, access to college, food, healthcare, and safe shelter. As well as a legal and bureaucratic system that gives assistance first and questions later.
How is one to live while food insecure, in school, working, and needing support but can’t get it because every single thing in America is set up to condemn the poor rather than support and uplift the human?
Land’s second book, Class, is an extension of Maid, the revolutionary exposé on the fallacy of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps when the weight of society’s foot smushes you like a crunchy leaf on the sidewalk.