num_pages: 195
description: We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes you can be poor and live in a house and have a job even two) but what poverty is truly likeon all levels. Frankly and boldly Tirado discusses openly how she went from lower-middle class to sometimes middle class to poor and everything in between and in doing so reveals why poor people dont always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should. 
language: English
title: Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons