A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...(展开全部)

"Whether Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderful. The psychological precision...is a delight, and the startling twists -- the unexpected leaps in time, the transformation of familiar characters -- they make the book what books ought to be, a little wild, a little mysterious." -- John ...(展开全部)

"Whether Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderful. The psychological precision...is a delight, and the startling twists -- the unexpected leaps in time, the transformation of familiar characters -- they make the book what books ought to be, a little wild, a little mysterious." -- John ...(展开全部)

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter. While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work-primarily done by wom...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬妮 • 兰德（Stephanie Land），单亲妈妈、清洁工、社会救助对象，同时也是一位专栏作家，文章散见于《纽约时报》《卫报》《华盛顿邮报》等。她自小就想成为作家，曾经每天只有六美金生活费的处境并没有令她放弃追梦。逃离家暴的男友时，身无分文的她只能和九个月大的女儿躲进收容所，并利用助学贷款、社会福利津贴勉强度日。如今，她靠自己的双手为女儿提供了稳定的生活，也实现了作家梦。同时，兰德为底层人发声的脚步依然没有停止，她参与了经济困难报道项目（EconomicHardshipReportingProject），致力于推动针对经济不平等问题的高质量新闻报道，尤其鼓励那些处在挣扎边缘的人参与进来，努力改变自己的命运。

Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged ethnographic research in Beijing and Shanghai with critical analyses of a diverse a...(展开全部)

Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex rel...(展开全部)

艾丽丝·门罗，加拿大作家，当代短篇小说大师。 1931年7月10日出生于加拿大安大略省，1968年《快乐影子之舞》初试啼声，迄今出版了14部短篇小说集，将加拿大总督文学奖、吉勒文学奖、英联邦作家奖、全美书评人协会奖等收入囊中。2009年获第3届布克国际奖。2013年获诺贝尔文学奖。代表作有《逃离》《亲爱的生活》《你以为你是谁》等。2024年5月13日于加拿大安大略省去世。

艾丽丝·门罗，加拿大作家，当代短篇小说大师。 1931年7月10日出生于加拿大安大略省，1968年《快乐影子之舞》初试啼声，迄今出版了14部短篇小说集，将加拿大总督文学奖、吉勒文学奖、英联邦作家奖、全美书评人协会奖等收入囊中。2009年获第3届布克国际奖。2013年获诺贝尔文学奖。代表作有《逃离》《亲爱的生活》《你以为你是谁》等。2024年5月13日于加拿大安大略省去世。