Oof. This book was a lot.

“Maid” has been on my TRL for several years and when a friend recently posted about it I decided to pick it up. I then discovered it is a series on Netflix, which I am hoping is better than the book.

Something about it just rubbed me the wrong way.

I REALLY wanted to root for the author, Stephanie Land, who wrote this about her life, but kept finding her to be a victim of her own choices vs. being the victim of broken government assistance programs.

The cycle of poverty is difficult to get out of and the system not as helpful as it could/should be.

Stephanie is a hard worker and cleaning up after strangers must be the most horrific, humiliating work there is.

She loves her child but continued to put her daughter in very precarious and often dangerous situations.

I was hoping it would end with Stephanie coming from a true place of new found gratitude and it didn’t, or at least she did not convey as much.

I enjoyed “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich so much more and have to recommend that one over this.