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Class : a memoir
Record details
- ISBN: 1982151390
- ISBN: 9781982151393
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Physical Description:
272 pages ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The Good Morning America book club, a GMA book club pick!"--Dust jacket. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | First days -- What happened last summer -- Climbing -- Economics learned, not taught -- Solid gold -- Sitting in class -- It's buildering, not bouldering -- Late -- What support -- The crisis center -- I'm pregnant -- Testing hunger -- Christmastime with the big sister -- I want to be a writer -- Lil' sister -- MFAs and other mother fucking assholes -- Student of the month -- Coraline. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | HQ 759.915 L36 2023 (Text) | 26040003421597 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line--Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition."-- - Baker & Taylor
The author of the New York Times best-seller Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Motherâs Will to Survive, which inspired a hit Netflix series, continues her story as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. - Simon and Schuster
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a âraw and inspiringâ (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an âunflinching look at Americaâs class divideâ¦and a reminder of the dignity of all work.â Later, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by sixty-seven million households and was Netflixâs fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanieâs escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions.
Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, food insecurity, the judgments of professors and fellow students who didnât understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty lineâLand finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties.
Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of Americaâs educational system and an inspiring testimony of a motherâs triumph against all odds.
