Maid

Die wahre und berührende Geschichte hinter der Netflix-Erfolgsserie 'Maid'.'Ich liebe diese Geschichte einer Frau, die unerträgliche Lebensumstände meistert.' Reese Witherspoon'Meine Tochter machte ihre ersten Schritte in einem Obdachlosenheim.' Stephanie Land steht kurz davor, ihren Traum vom Studieren in die Tat umzusetzen, als sie ungeplant schwanger wird. Ihr Freund fängt an, sie immer stärker zu kontrollieren und zu bedrohen, von ihrer Familie bekommt sie keine Hilfe. Zusammen mit ihrer kleinen Tochter flüchtet sie schließlich aus ihrer toxischen Beziehung und landet auf der Straße. Doch statt zu verzweifeln beginnt Stephanie zu kämpfen: Mit einem Job als Putzhilfe schafft sie es gerade so, sich und ihre Tochter über Wasser zu halten. Während sie die Häuser putzt, erlebt sie aus erster Hand die Sorgen und Sehnsüchte ihrer so viel besser gestellten Kunden. Und trotz vieler Rückschläge schafft sie es mit schierer Willenskraft, eine bessere Zukunft für sich und ihr Kind zu erkämpfen. Dies ist ihre Erfolgsgeschichte.Auf Barack Obamas Sommer-Leseliste und 'New York Times'-Bestseller. Verfilmt von Netflix mit Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell und Nick Robinson.'Ein aufrichtiges und starkes Memoir ... Lands Liebe zu ihrer Tochter ... scheint hell durch die Seiten dieser wunderschönen, erhebenden Geschichte.' Publishers Weekly

NATIONAL BESTSELLER <BR> <BR>A Good Morning America Book Club Pick <BR> A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall<BR> <BR>From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.<BR><BR>When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.” Later, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by sixty-seven million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions.<BR> <BR>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, food insecurity, 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.<BR> <BR>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.

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL.<BR>BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019.<BR>BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.<BR><BR>Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. <BR><BR>'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.'<BR><BR>As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head, Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, working long hours in order to provide for her small family. In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today's inequitable society.<BR><BR> As she worked hard to climb her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labour jobs as a cleaner whilst also juggling higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told. The stories of the overworked and underpaid.<BR><BR> Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of the upper-middle classes and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. 'I'd become a nameless ghost,' Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the 'servant' worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children.