Hey, it's Empair's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. The writer's Stephanie Land's breakout book,

Maid, was a memoir about her life as a single mother, living in poverty, working as a maid.

He got all these accolades and was eventually turned into a Netflix miniseries. Her follow-up book,

Class, is her story after that period in her life life of going to college and becoming a writer.

And early on in this interview, NPR's Aisha Roscoe asks why. Why go to college to be a writer

of all things while still juggling parenthood and bills and everything else life was throwing at her?

And she says something kind of simple, but enlightening. She says that if she didn't at least

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Author Stephanie Land has called Poverty an invisible and isolating experience.

In her first book, Made, we followed her journey as a poor single mother who cleans rich

people's homes to make ends meet. And in her second, called class, she adds a new challenge,

going to college to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer.

Stephanie Land joins us now from Missoula, Montana.

Thank you for being with us.

Thank you so much for having me.

Your first book made was a breakout success.

It was adapted for Netflix and was on Obama's summer reading list for 2019, which is a huge deal.

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