Maid, Stephanie Land - 270 Pages
A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here she explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them.
The full title of this book is Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. Reading this story and others like it makes me realise how lucky I was to have a supportive and functional family growing up.And while I did enjoy reading this book, I don't feel like it is comparable in quality to some other memoirs of the type, such as Educated by Tara Westover.
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