Hand to Mouth

The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

Linda Tirado

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Virago
30 September 2014

Memoirs; Society & Social Sciences; Poverty & unemployment

Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any.

In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face.

By: Linda Tirado
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 384g
ISBN: 9780349005485
ISBN 10: 0349005486
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Linda Tirado is married with two children and lives in Utah, USA. Until 2014, she was working two jobs, most recently in a chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist for a disability non-profit organisation. She blogs, writes and campaigns on poverty and class issues. Since her online essay 'Why I Make Terrible Decisions' went viral around the world in autumn 2013, she has received speaking and commentary requests from numerous media outlets and institutions. Hand to Mouth is her first book.

Reviews for Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Devastatingly smart and funny, consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. Linda Tirado is the real thing -- Barbara Ehrenreich, acclaimed author of Nickel and Dimed Conveys harsh realities with the unshakeable integrity of true, lived experience, combined with brilliant analysis, deep intelligence and flaming humour ... Anyone interested in fairness and justice should read this book -- Bidisha Hand to Mouth is phenomenal. Profoundly moving, smart, brilliant -- Laurie Penny, author of Unspeakable Things Part memoir, part polemic, part howl of protest ... an important [read] -- Emma Brockes Guardian Hand to Mouth - written with scorching flair - should be read by every person lucky enough to have a disposable income Financial Times I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Devastatingly smart and funny, consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. Linda Tirado is the real thing -- Barbara Ehrenreich, acclaimed author of Nickel and Dimed