Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive that forced a reckoning with

that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste

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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive that forced a reckoning withNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy.