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Cargando... Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in Americapor Michelle Kennedy
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Michelle Kennedy tells the story of her summer of homelessness with great honesty and good writing. Coping with a young marriage, an irresponsible husband, three young children, finding work, living out of a car, strained parental relationships, and trying to find a home is a set of daunting tasks. Kennedy lays it all on the table in a way that makes this a page turner. As I read the book, I kept asking, "How long can this go on?" and "What about the children?" Despite her faults and self-doubts, you have to root for Kennedy and her family. You're glad to see the happy ending, but you wonder about others who aren't so lucky and why some of the people she comes to know don't provide more help. A book well worth reading and discussing. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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She throws in a few throwaway lines in the post-script, justifying her bad decisions and her treatment of other people. She assures us that her kids don't even remember her irresponsible treatment of them. I'm sure they wouldn't have remembered much about it if a real tragedy had occurred, either. The children's lack of memories don't justify the neglect.
The funny thing is that Michelle Kennedy is a lot like me. We made similar stupid decisions. We come from similar middle class backgrounds. Like most people with our backgrounds, we both have lived only one paycheck from disaster for years. Maybe that's why her breezy and offhand account of her mindless youth grates on me so badly. It's like I'm seeing my own bad decisions magnified and then, instead of owning up to them, just rationalizing them away. Uck.
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