Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

'A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide (Barack Obama),' this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Stone as 'a great one.' At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a 'nameless ghost' who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided