Without A Net: Middle Class And Homeless With Kids In America, My Story - Hardcover

Kennedy, Michelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670033669 ISBN 13: 9780670033669

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Without a Net 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... Full description

About this title

Product Description:

A Pushcart Prize-winning writer for Brain, Child magazine and other prestigious periodicals describes how at the age of twenty-four, newly divorced and raising three children alone, she was rendered homeless and overcame difficult odds in order to safeguard her family's survival. 25,000 first printing.

Review:

"Refreshingly candid... Without A Net shows how frighteningly easy it can be for an ordinary, non substance-abusing middle-class woman and devoted mother to find herself unable to afford a place to live." Los Angeles Times Book Review"[Kennedy s] sense of humor, ingenuity, and refreshing refusal to blame others for her mistakes won me over, and I quickly found myself rooting for her to succeed." Elle Magazine

"A beautiful, heartfelt, and wonderful book." Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina"

"Refreshingly candid... Without A Net shows how frighteningly easy it can be for an ordinary, non substance-abusing middle-class woman and devoted mother to find herself unable to afford a place to live." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Kennedy's] sense of humor, ingenuity, and refreshing refusal to blame others for her mistakes won me over, and I quickly found myself rooting for her to succeed." --Elle Magazine

"A beautiful, heartfelt, and wonderful book." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670033669
• ISBN 13: 9780670033669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212