Without a Net: The Female Exerience of Growing Up Working Class

"Tired of the one-dimensional portrayal of the working class that sociologists and journalists routinely offer up, Michelle Tea has collected these scorching yet tender essays from writers who grew up knowing the pressure of parents' dead-end dreams; scamming, stealing, and hustling just to get food on the table; the complex humiliation of free lunch and county hospitals; and a fierce impulse to gather and protect whose who shared their tenements, houses, and neighborhoods."