Unshelved Book Club--Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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Book Club

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Adults (18+), Seniors
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Unshelved book club meets at 1:00 pm on the second Wednesday of every month.  Books are selected 3-6 months in advance.  Anyone interested in discussing the selected monthly book is welcome to attend!  

This month, Unshelved is reading Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land. This is Quincy Public Library's Community Read!

Summary: 

An economic hardship journalist describes the years she worked in low-pay domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

 

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