A review by jaclyncrupi
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

4.0

MAID is a powerful portrait of the constant stress and crushing hopelessness of the poverty cycle and a reminder to check your privilege (though I do wish Land had done that herself a little more and more fully acknowledge her white privilege). It’s incredibly eye-opening and heart-breaking. ‘Every single parent teetering on poverty does this. We work, we love, we do. And the stress of it all, the exhaustion, leaves us hollowed out. Scraped out. Ghosts of our former selves.’