PositiveElectric Literature\"Land’s memoir forces readers to examine their implicit judgments about what we mean by the value of hard work in America and societal expectations of motherhood ... What sets this memoir apart is the tone, so self-aware at how she has been viewed ... Land’s memoir offers no solutions to poverty. That is not its purpose. Instead, her purpose is to show how little many of us understand the working poor ... Land’s memoir demonstrates that mothers always face impossible choices, but privilege softens the impact of each choice.\