Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Autor Linda Tiradoen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – oct 2014 – vârsta de la 18 ani
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.
In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611763300
ISBN-10: 1611763304
Dimensiuni: 134 x 166 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 1611763304
Dimensiuni: 134 x 166 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
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Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any.
In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face.
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any.
In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face.
Recenzii
I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Devastatingly smart and funny, consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. Linda Tirado is the real thing
Conveys harsh realities with the unshakeable integrity of true, lived experience, combined with brilliant analysis, deep intelligence and flaming humour ... Anyone interested in fairness and justice should read this book
Hand to Mouth is phenomenal. Profoundly moving, smart, brilliant
Part memoir, part polemic, part howl of protest ... an important [read]
Hand to Mouth - written with scorching flair - should be read by every person lucky enough to have a disposable income
Tirado strips away our capacity to avoid the truth, to be sidetracked. Tirado tells us what we all secretly know every time we catch a glimpse of the night cleaner in the early-morning office finishing up and then heading off to a second job
A very good writer who describes life on the economic margins with biting wit and a lot of insight
Conveys harsh realities with the unshakeable integrity of true, lived experience, combined with brilliant analysis, deep intelligence and flaming humour ... Anyone interested in fairness and justice should read this book
Hand to Mouth is phenomenal. Profoundly moving, smart, brilliant
Part memoir, part polemic, part howl of protest ... an important [read]
Hand to Mouth - written with scorching flair - should be read by every person lucky enough to have a disposable income
Tirado strips away our capacity to avoid the truth, to be sidetracked. Tirado tells us what we all secretly know every time we catch a glimpse of the night cleaner in the early-morning office finishing up and then heading off to a second job
A very good writer who describes life on the economic margins with biting wit and a lot of insight