Bibliograph

Hand to mouth, living in bootstrap america, Linda Tirado

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Hand to mouth, living in bootstrap america, Linda Tirado

Language

eng

Index

no index present

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unknown

Main title

Hand to mouth

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

883365613

Responsibility statement

Linda Tirado

Sub title

living in bootstrap america

Summary

From the author of the eye-opening and controversial essay on poverty that was read by millions comes the real-life Nickel and Dimed, as Linda Tirado explains what it's like to be working poor in America, and why poor people make the decisions they do. 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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