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[quote=Anonymous]I was a huge fan of Stephanie Land's first book, "Maid," though I thought the Netflix series was actually better than the book--it invented/showed her relationship with the father of her child; her mother's mental illness was so clearly and devastatingly present, etc. 
I was rooting for Stephanie and her daughter throughout the whole book (I'm still rooting for them!)
At the end of Maid--so much hard work and legal/financial struggles for custody of her child--she ends up a student at the University of Montana. It was a very moving journey. 
With "Class," an account of her final year at the university, her struggles were  harder for me to root for, somehow. Though I learned A LOT about the horrors of our student loan system, and she was MUCH older than the other students, plus she had a child, and men treated her badly, she still had a lot of support with friends and she didn't really need to sleep around that much. Spoiler alert: She got pregnant twice more. Had one abortion, and then another child.
I appreciated her explaining that the English program did NOT prepare you, financially, for a life as a writer, even a freelance writer. That she had to learn on her own. 
But basically, the book wasn't well-written and I feel disappointed in her and in myself--she's such a fighter! Why didn't I care as much about her, this time around? [/quote]

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