One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 Esquire "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 ...
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One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 Esquire "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. Frankly and boldly, Tirado discusses openly 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. "
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If you've ever felt smug (as I have) because you've always been able to pay your bills, this will open your eyes. Yes, some poor people make bad decisions, as we all do, but it's more complicated than that. Losing a job, and having your apartment flood in the same month is enough to tip someone from comfort to living on the edge. A difficult divorce many years ago may have done the same thing to me but I had a safety net, my father who loaned me money. W/o that, I would probably still be living hand to mouth.
