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

Kennedy, Michelle

 
9780143036784: Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143036785 ISBN 13: 9780143036784
Verlag: Penguin Books, 2006

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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.

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Michelle Kennedy’s Salon.com piece about this experience touched a nerve: E-mails and letters poured in from readers who wanted the whole story. Kennedy was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her work in Brain, Child magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

Visit Michelle Kennedy on the web at http://www.mishakennedy.com

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Verlag
Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143036785
ISBN 13 
9780143036784
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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