Timely, urgent, and unforgettable, this is memoir at its very best." - Susannah Cahalan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness It's a perspective we seldom see represented firsthand - and one we so desperately need right now. "In Maid, Stephanie Land, a gifted storyteller with an eye for details you'll never forget, exposes what it's like to exist in America as a single mother, working herself sick cleaning our dirty toilets, one missed paycheck away from destitution. an incredibly worthwhile read." - Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir Her journey offers an illuminating read that should inspire outrage, hope, and change." - Library Journal "Land has perhaps succeeded in having her story told by virtue of her eventual triumph in escaping the grind of poverty. An important memoir that should be required reading for anyone who has never struggled with poverty." - Kirkus Heartfelt and powerful.Land's love for her daughter ("We were each other's moon and sun") shines brightly through the pages of this beautiful, uplifting story of resilience and survival." - Publishers Weekly With this book, she gives voice to the "servant" worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes. Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labor jobs, higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter's head. While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work - primarily done by women - fuels the economic success of the wealthy. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter." Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America.