Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mothers Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

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Title: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mothers Will to Survive

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At 28, Stephanie Lands dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet.is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanies years spent in service to upper middle class America as a nameless ghost who quietly shared in her clients triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that werent being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted