Bibliograph

Class, a memoir of motherhood, hunger, and higher education, Stephanie Land

Type

Label

Class, a memoir of motherhood, hunger, and higher education, Stephanie Land

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Class

Oclc number

1409785034

Responsibility statement

Stephanie Land

Sub title

a memoir of motherhood, hunger, and higher education

Summary

"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line -- Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all odds."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

First days -- What happened last summer -- Climbing -- Economics learned, not taught -- Solid gold -- Sitting in class -- It's buildering, not bouldering -- Late -- What support -- The crisis center -- I'm pregnant -- Testing hunger -- Christmastime with the big sister -- I want to be a writer -- Lil' Sister -- MFAs and other Mother Fucking Assholes -- Student of the month -- Coraline

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