Without a Net

Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America : My Story

Author: Michelle Kennedy
ISBN: 9780670033669

Michelle Kennedy grew up in a typical middle-class family. She left her Vermont home to begin college at American University in Washington, D.C., and interned as a U.S. Senate page. She had a boyfriend, Tom, whom she adored and soon married; they moved into a starter apartment in the burbs and everything seemed to be falling into place. But the life Michelle was building suddenly unraveled, and by age twenty-four, she found herself single, homeless, and living out of a car with her three small children.Michelle Kennedy's true story, Without a Net, is about what happens when the American Dream bottoms out. It's about improvising - a lot: inventing cover stories for bosses and co-workers, cooking ramen noodles over a grill in a public park. Working back-breaking shifts while your kids sleep in the parking lot. Never having enough money for a security deposit on an apartment - but too much to qualify for public assistance.Michelle Kennedy recounts how a few bad choices and missed chances

Publisher: Viking
Publish Date: 2005

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Class/Economics)