Without A Net: Middle Class And Homeless With Kids In America, My Story - Couverture rigide

Kennedy, Michelle

 
9780670033669: Without A Net: Middle Class And Homeless With Kids In America, My Story
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ISBN 10 : 0670033669 ISBN 13 : 9780670033669
Editeur : Viking Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Without a Net Michelle Kennedy grew up in a typical middle-class family. She left her Vermont home to begin college at American University in Washington, D.C., and interned as a U.S. Senate page. She had a boyfriend, Tom, whom she adored and soon married; they moved into a starter apartment in the burbs and everything seemed to be falling into place. But the life Michelle was building suddenly unraveled, and by... Full description

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Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs of D.C. But the comfortable life she was building quickly fell apart. At age twenty-four Michelle was suddenly single, homeless, and living out of a car with her three small children. She waitressed night shifts while her kids slept out in the diner's parking lot. She saved her tips in the glove compartment, and set aside a few quarters every week for truck stop showers for her and the kids.

With startling humor and honesty, Kennedy describes the frustration of never having enough money for a security deposit on an apartment—but having too much to qualify for public assistance. Without A Net is a story of hope. Michelle Kennedy survives on her wits, a little luck, and a lot of courage. And in the end, she triumphs.

Revue de presse

"Refreshingly candid... Without A Net shows how frighteningly easy it can be for an ordinary, non substance-abusing middle-class woman and devoted mother to find herself unable to afford a place to live." —Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Kennedy’s] sense of humor, ingenuity, and refreshing refusal to blame others for her mistakes won me over, and I quickly found myself rooting for her to succeed." —Elle Magazine

"A beautiful, heartfelt, and wonderful book." —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

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Éditeur
Viking Pr
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670033669
ISBN 13 
9780670033669
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780143036784: Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0143036785 ISBN 13 :  9780143036784
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2006
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