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HAND to MOUTH : LIVING IN A BOOTSTRAP AMERICA by Linda Tirado is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 — Esquire'I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself – if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing.'—from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and DimedWe 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. Frankly and boldly, Tirado discusses openly how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor an

Who reads HAND to MOUTH : LIVING IN A BOOTSTRAP AMERICA?

Author

Linda Tirado

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780425277973

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Social Science

Rating

3.51 / 5 (3,144 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13