More 21st Century Standouts! That’s the theme for the next series of Evening Book Club picks (February through May).
Join us March 17 at 6:45 p.m. in the Margaret Knoll Gardner Lecture Room for a lively discussion of Nickel and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Nonfiction. From 1998 to 2000, the author worked as what we now call a service worker (waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, salesclerk, and nursing home aide) for minimum wage. She wanted to find out if someone could get by on a minimum wage job.
“Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich’s perspective and for a rare view of how “prosperity” looks from the bottom. …Twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.” — from the publisher.
Copies can be borrowed on interlibrary loan or purchased from one of Emmaus’ independent bookstores. Also available on Hoopla as an audiobook.
*RSVP: Email [email protected], call 610-965-9284, or sign up at the desk.
Coming in April: A Visit from the Goon Squad.
