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Maid

Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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By: Stephanie Land
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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL.
BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019.
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.

Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich.

'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.'

As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head, Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.

As she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of the overworked and underpaid.

Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,' Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the 'servant' worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.©2019 Stephanie Land (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Parenting & Families Relationships Single Parents Single Parent Inspiring Heartfelt
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Read this feeling sad how society treats people who are trying their hardest in a very unfair society . written well

on obamas summer reading list

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I really enjoyed this easy listening, honest, heartfelt read.
Stephanie is an amazing lady and her going through life so alone touched me.
I also loved the series on Netflix.

Enjoyable, easy listening read

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I loved listening to this book!it is beautiful and inspiring! Chasing her passion even with all the hardships

Beautiful !! True story!

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Couldn't stop listening! Never have I cried so much with a book I didn't want to put down. Felt it all, and wanted more. Stephanie is a lioness, true mamma bear! Makes you a) grateful for everything you have, and b) want to help however you can. That's what I call powerful.

In awe

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You just don’t know what someone else is going through and this book is a brilliant eye opener

Thank you for sharing your heart Stephanie

See singles mums and cleaners differently

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