Join us Jan. 25 when Stephanie Land discusses her bestseller, 'Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.'
Land’s bestselling memoir, the inspiration for a popular new Netflix series, recounts her journey from life as a $10-an-hour domestic worker to a college student with a budding career as a writer.“I was really fascinated and emotionally moved by Land’s portrayal of motherhood, and the hardships she faced,” says my colleague. She was particularly haunted by Land’s account of stopping her car to retrieve her daughter’s lost doll, which led to a car crash.
“Every single parent teetering on poverty does this,” Land wrote. “We work, we love, we do. And the stress of it all, the exhaustion, leaves us hollowed. ... That’s how I felt for those few days after the accident, like I wasn’t fully connected to the ground when I walked. I knew that at any moment, a breeze could come and blow me away.”
“Maid” is unique, with its candid look inside the life of a house cleaner. But millions of Americans face the same daily struggles Land depicts, and business journalist
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