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

Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America : My Story
ISBN-10
0670033669
ISBN-13
9780670033669
Series
Without a Net
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
212
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Viking
Author
Michelle Kennedy

Description

One woman's award-winning memoir of her abrupt plunge from the American dream into a waking nightmare 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.

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