—The lives of the desperately poor in the world’s wealthiest nation—
The Non-fiction Feature
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Authors: Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 210 | 2015
According to some estimates, roughly 60 percent of abusers are familiar to the child but are not family members, while 30 percent of abusers…are related to the child….Children who have multiple caretakers are most at risk, as are children who are emotionally vulnerable.
The Fiction Spot
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
“Outside every drugstore in town there were dozens of old cars with kids fighting in the backseat. I would see their mothers inside Payless and Walgreens and Lee’s, but we didn’t greet each other. Even women I knew…we acted like we didn’t. We waited in line while the others bought terpin hydrate with codeine cough syrup and signed for it in a large awkward ledger. Sometimes we wrote our right names, sometimes made the names up.”
The Product Spot
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Your kid should probably learn how to read. But hey, no rush, there are definitely upsides to them not being able to read candy wrapper labels. Just kidding—go to the library, make up stories, and ask Dolly to send your kid a book each month until they turn five! For free!