Maid is available in paperback from Legacy Lit/Hachette ($17.99) with a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. The show also features Nick Robinson as the abusive father of Alex's daughter and Andie MacDowell as Alex's mother. It's one woman's story of inching out of the dirt and how the middle class turns a blind eye to the poverty lurking just a few rungs below." The 10-episode Netflix miniseries, created by Molly Smith Metzler, stars Margaret Qualley as a fictionalized version of Land named Alex. A Washington Post review said Maid "isn't about how hard work can save you but about how false that idea is. Relying on a tattered social safety net to help survive soul-crushing scarcity, Land was eventually able to earn a writing degree and escape the kind of misery that millions of Americans slog through every day. Land's 2019 memoir, which expands on a popular Vox article she wrote in 2015, chronicles her struggle as a single mother earning poverty wages cleaning rich people's houses in the Pacific Northwest. On October 1, Netflix released the miniseries Maid, based on the book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land. Beethoven, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.Īnd don't you deserve a little something for being so thoughtful, gathering gifts for your loved ones? We Run with the Tides by Vendela Vida, set in mid-1980s San Francisco-"a dreamy, tricky tale of girlhood, secrets and the shifting sands of truth" and a 2020 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice-is just out in paperback. Over the next few weeks, we'll be featuring gift books for cooks, biography and history buffs, romance fans and more, as well as children's and young adult books for the budding readers in your life.īut why not get a head start? In today's issue, there's a book on David Hockney by James Cahill a debut story collection set in Pakistan by Farah Ali, People Want to Live and "a playful and innovative work of historical fiction," Paul Griffith's Mr. May we suggest the new Jack Reacher novel, Better Off Dead, out today? Check out our interview with brothers Lee Child and Andrew Child (below), in which they discuss their collaborative process and the military facts they uncovered in their research. What that means for you is that now is the time to do your gift shopping-stop into the bookstore to pick up that perfect thriller you know your brother or aunt or the neighbor who walks your dog would just love. It's taking longer for publishers to reprint titles paper is limited and printers are backlogged. And even if the books you want are on shelves now, they may not be if you wait much longer. You've probably seen photos of the hundreds of container ships waiting off the Port of Los Angeles, emblematic of the supply-chain difficulties facing the country.
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