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—Neil Gaiman
author of Coraline
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“A single mother‘s personal, unflinching look at America’s class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work.”
—President Barack Obama
One of Obama’s 2019 Favorite Books & Obama’s 2019 Summer Reading List
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About Stephanie Land
Stephanie Land is an American author and activist whose writing focuses on social and economic justice, as well as parenting under the poverty line. Her debut book, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a limited series on Netflix. The book—an elaboration of an article Land wrote for Vox in 2015—was included on Barack Obama’s “Summer Reading List” of 2019. Actress Reese Witherspoon said she “loved this story about one woman surviving impossible circumstances.”
Maid, the Netflix series reached 67 million households in its first four weeks, becoming the streaming service’s fourth most-watched show in 2021. The National Domestic Violence was mentioned after each episode of Maid and received more calls in the month after its premiere than any other month in its entire 25-year history.
Land grew up in Alaska before moving to Washington and struggled with poverty for several years, relying on welfare programs to support herself and her daughter. She eventually earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and creative writing from the University of Montana and became a freelance writer and writing fellow. Land’s work has been featured in numerous outlets, including The New York Times and The Guardian. She is a frequent speaker at colleges and national advocacy organizations. Land’s second book, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, is set to be published in 2023.
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I Used to Clean Houses. Then I Hired a Maid.
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I know how grueling the job can be, and I swore I’d never ask someone to do it for me. But then I found myself in need of help.
Read full piece on The Atlantic.
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I spent 2 years cleaning houses. What I saw makes me never want to be rich.
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Let me tell you something you already know: Your housekeeper spies on you.
We work alone. We get bored. What do you expect?
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Portrait of the Artist as a Single Mom
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In my mind, the scene of the accident was always the same. It didn’t clearly make sense how it happened, but that didn’t matter. When it played out behind my closed eyelids, I saw my truck, a late-Eighties Toyota 4Runner, stopped…
Read full piece on The New York Review of Books.
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The Class Politics of Decluttering
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Minimalism is a virtue only when it’s a choice, and it’s telling that its fan base is clustered in the well-off middle class. For people who are not so well off, the idea of opting to have even less is not really an option.
Read full piece in The New York Times.
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What do you do when you can’t afford childcare? You get creative.
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At the start of my 10-minute break during a two-hour writing workshop, I looked down to check my phone. I had three missed calls and five text messages, all from the friend who was supposed to be watching my daughter.
Read full piece on The Washington Post.
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I lived on $6 a day with a 6-year-old and a baby on the way. It was extreme poverty.
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It didn’t take me long to go from financial stability to fearing homelessness. In January 2014 I was 35-years-old, raising a six-year-old nearly full-time and six months pregnant without a partner.
Read full piece on The Guardian.
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“These little things make all the great difference. When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness.”
Joseph Conrad
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