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A review by jessica42980
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
3.0
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This review will appear on my site on July 21, 2020.
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3.5 stars
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Stephanie Land’s memoir is written and narrated by the author. I enjoyed that I was really hearing her personal story first hand in her own voice. Land shows us the hard life of a single mom and the hard work she put in to take care of her daughter. It also shows how difficult it can be to even get assistance from government programs, let alone to stay on them.
Most of the memoir focuses on her job as a maid and cleaning others’ houses. It made me think about the people who clean our hotel rooms and that they may experience similar life difficulties. (I can’t picture maids who clean homes, as we would never be able to afford one!) I hate to say it was ‘enjoyable’ to read about her working in the people’s homes. What I did not like at all was when she described putting on women’s expensive jackets and going through their personal things. How invasive and wrong!
The memoir has a happy ending, and I think it was the love of her daughter that kept her going through the very difficult times she faced. This memoir leaves you thinking about many things, including not judging someone until you have walked in their shoes, which Land lets us do as she shares the story of her life as a maid.
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This review will appear on my site on July 21, 2020.
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3.5 stars
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Stephanie Land’s memoir is written and narrated by the author. I enjoyed that I was really hearing her personal story first hand in her own voice. Land shows us the hard life of a single mom and the hard work she put in to take care of her daughter. It also shows how difficult it can be to even get assistance from government programs, let alone to stay on them.
Most of the memoir focuses on her job as a maid and cleaning others’ houses. It made me think about the people who clean our hotel rooms and that they may experience similar life difficulties. (I can’t picture maids who clean homes, as we would never be able to afford one!) I hate to say it was ‘enjoyable’ to read about her working in the people’s homes. What I did not like at all was when she described putting on women’s expensive jackets and going through their personal things. How invasive and wrong!
The memoir has a happy ending, and I think it was the love of her daughter that kept her going through the very difficult times she faced. This memoir leaves you thinking about many things, including not judging someone until you have walked in their shoes, which Land lets us do as she shares the story of her life as a maid.