Those living in poverty often aren’t seen or acknowledged on a daily basis by the rest of society. There are organizations and government agencies that try to help. And many who express empathy, but do they really know how difficult life is for someone who doesn’t have resources and may not know where their next meal is coming from. With that in mind, it’s not a big surprise that there aren’t a lot of books or TV shows about poor people.

So, when Stephanie Land’s debut book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive, chronicling her struggles as a single mother living in poverty became a best seller in 2019, it opened many readers' eyes about how hard day-to-day living is for poor people.

More people  learned about it when Maid inspired a TV series on Netflix.

Stephanie Land has written a new book – that just went on sale Tuesday called Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education that describes her time trying to juggle raising a daughter, a pregnancy, going to college to get a degree, not bringing in much money and fighting to realize her dream of becoming a writing.

Stephanie Land was on The Spark Friday.

Stephanie Land will appear at Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg this Saturday, November 11th at 6 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of her new book.

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