Memoir on motherhood highlights poverty in higher education: ‘Babies don’t belong in grad school’
chronicled 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.