Hand to Mouth : : Living in Bootstrap America

Locations
Call Number: 362.509 Ti, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Socioeconomics / Tirado, Linda
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	362.509 Ti	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	362.509 Ti	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Socioeconomics / Tirado, Linda	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." -from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like-on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should." -- Provided by publisher.
"An examination of what it means to be poor in America today"-- Provided by publisher.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Highly recommended submitted by clmcdl on January 28, 2015, 11:51am This book provides a perspective rarely heard. Definitely an eye-opener. Well-written.

Eh submitted by KOH on August 28, 2017, 8:07pm I was really interested in reading a book from this perspective, but the writer is not the person I want to hear this story from. Kind of unlikable.

I wanted to like this submitted by LizBC on July 22, 2018, 2:23pm I gave it 4 stars because I really wanted to like it, the book was interesting. However, the author seemed very unlikeable and whiny to me. There are better books out there that tackle the subject matter about how hard it is to make a living wage in the USA today. This is not one of them. This is about failed life choices and entitlement. But it is still interesting and well-written, so it's worth a read if you're interested in the subject matter.