Yes No Maybe So

資料類型: Book 圖書   書目號:48447
書  名Yes No Maybe So
作  者Becky Albertalli,Aisha Saeed
出 版 項New York; Balzer & Bray; 2020
稽 核 項436 pages ;; 21cm
標  題Land, Stephanie,
標  題Women household employees
標  題Working class
標  題Single mothers
標  題Working poor
標  題Poverty
內 容 註The cabin -- The camper -- Transitional housing -- TheFairgrounds apartment -- Seven different kinds ofgovernment assistance -- The farm -- The last job on earth-- The porn house -- The move-out clean -- Henry's house -- The studio -- Minimalist -- Wendy's house -- The planthouse -- The chef's house -- Donna's house -- In threeyears -- The sad house -- Lori's house -- "I don't knowhow you do it" -- The clown house -- Still life with Mia -- Do better -- The bay house -- The hardest worker -- Thehoarder house -- We're home
摘 要 註At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams -- breaking free from theroots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, attendinga university, and becoming a writer -- were cut short whena summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. Sheturned to housekeeping to make ends meet, working days andtaking college classes online. She also began to writerelentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren'tbeing told: the stories of overworked and underpaidAmericans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women,Infants, and Children) coupons to eat. Of the governmentprograms that provided her housing, but that doubled ashalfway houses. The aloof government employees who calledher lucky for receiving assistance while she didn't feellucky at all. She wrote to remember the fight, toeventually cut through the deep-rooted stigmas of theworking poor. Her memoir explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like tobe in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost,"Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients,many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, butwho she learns plenty about. As she begins to discovermore about her clients' lives -- their sadness and love,
ISBN9780062977762
ISBN9780316454506
詳細館藏(共 1 筆)
索 書 號登 錄 號冊次號館別 / 館藏地流通類型狀態加入預約清單電子資源
870 / B397 054450  復興高中圖書館 / 外文區 可外借 在館   

| 鄰近書目 | 推薦閱讀

他人也借過

 

外科醫生 / 泰絲.格里森(Tess Gerritsen)著 尤傳莉譯The Complete Works of William Shakespeare / edited by W. G. Clark anTHE LORD OF THE RINGS PART ONE-THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING / J.R.R. TA DOG'S PURPOSE / W.BRUCE CAMERON著 林雨蒨譯人皮盜獵者 / 麗莎.嘉德納(Lisa Gardner)著 楊佳蓉譯
緘默的女孩 / 泰絲.格里森(Tess Gerritsen)作 宋瑛堂譯門徒 / 泰絲.格里森(Tess Gerritsen)著 尤傳莉譯貝納德的墮落 / 泰絲.格里森作 陳宗琛譯The Culture Map : Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures / Meyer, Erin漂離的伊甸 / 泰絲.格里森(Tess Gerritsen)著 莊瑩珍譯



目錄查詢 分類查詢 個人資料 圖書薦購 新書查詢 閉館日 排行榜 台大 復興高中 奇摩 登出

From : 10.0.10.254

  本日流通累計至 21:29:20 借閱 : 33 次 續借 : 0 次 歸還 : 19 次 預約 : 0 次 電子資源 : 0 次


復興高中圖書館 ( FHSH Lib )  PCLIS 版本  24.6.0.8