This was a very interesting book. Most of the books that I have read have been fictional stories, bibliographies of boring Shakesphere books, but this book was one of the few that has been interesting. A news reporter has decided to becomes something that she is not and write a book about it. She was willing to take a chance, experience something new, and attempted to understand low-income citizens in the entirety. Instead for just deciding to interview one of them, she decides to be one of them, be in their shoes, and without interviewing anyone, write everything that she knows and experienced and put it all on paper.
“Lori and Pauline are excused from vacumming on account of thir
backs…Marg’s arthritis makes scrubbing a torture another woman ha to
see a physical therapist for her rotator cuff.”
Personally, I wouldn’t of has the guts to do what she did. I would have been extremely scared and would of backed down even before I became a housemaid. She could be an inspiration to anyone.
I really liked what you wrote here. I guess I never realized that she was not taking the easy way out, by any means. You’re right, she could have interviewed people. But instead, she wanted to make it personal. Go through exactly what they had to go through. That way the fervor she expressed in the novel was real; it was heartfelt. I really enjoyed the book too and I thought it was such a relief from Shakespeare and everything else that has proved to be so boring.