Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story - Hardcover

Kennedy, Michelle

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9780670033669: Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story

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ISBN 10: 0670033669 ISBN 13: 9780670033669

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2005

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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.

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"Refreshingly candid...Without A Net shows how frighteningly easy it can be for an ordinary, nonsubstance-abusing middleclass 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 the Author:

Michelle Kennedy�’s Salon.com piece about this experience touched a nerve: E- mails and letters poured in from readers who wanted the whole story. Kennedy was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her work in Brain, Child magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

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