Memoir on motherhood highlights poverty in higher education: ‘Babies don’t belong in grad school’
nypost.comchronicled her struggles as a single mother scrubbing toilets for minimal pay in “Maid,” her bestselling memoir from 2019 that was adapted into a hit Netflix series starring Margaret Qualley.
At the end of that book, Land took her 3-year-old daughter, Emilia, and moved away from an abusive partner in Washington State to Missoula, Mont., in pursuit of a college degree and a better life.She was in for a real education.
Land’s latest, “Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education” (Atria) focuses on her senior year at the University of Montana.
She was is in her mid-30s, on food stamps and borrowing massive amounts of money to get a B.A. in English.“A degree had been waved in front of my face like a certificate out of poverty,” she writes. “The fact that the loans sunk me further into poverty wasn’t lost on me.” The schoolwork itself was easy.
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