Stephanie Land
American author and freelance writer best known for the 2019 memoir "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," which recounts her experiences with poverty and working as a housecleaner while raising a child as a single mother.
Books
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1. Maid
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
A raw, candid memoir that follows a young single mother who leaves an abusive relationship and survives by working as a housecleaner while navigating shelters, welfare bureaucracy, and the shame and stigma of poverty; through day-to-day domestic labor, parenting, and the pursuit of education, she exposes the systemic barriers, moral judgments, and quiet resilience involved in trying to build a stable life for her child.
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