. . . "Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America" . . . . . . "Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world" . . "Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap america"@en . "\"An examination of what it means to be poor in America today\"--" . . . . . . . . . "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. Frankly and boldly, Tirado discusses openly 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.\""@en . "Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any. In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face." . . . . . . . . "\"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, author of Nickel and Dimed. We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature frank 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 cell phone and 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.\" --" . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Hand to mouth living in bootstrap america"@en . "Poor United States." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes" . "United States." . . "United States" . . . "Erlebnisbericht." . . "Social classes United States." . . "Biography & Autobiography." . . "Poverty." . . "Poverty" . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness" . "Personal Memoirs" . . "Sociology." . . "Poor." . . "Poor" . "Nonfiction." . . "Armut." . . "Poverty & Homelessness" . . "Poverty United States." . . "Soziale Klasse." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs" . "Social Classes" . . "Social classes." . "Social classes" . "USA." . .