Downtown Huntsville Library
Between the Lives
Sunday, August 9, 2026 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
It's time to get real with these enduring real lives. Between the Lives is a book club for readers who enjoy autobiographies and memoirs. This month's pick is Maid by Stephanie Land.
A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
Stephanie Land is an American author and public speaker. She is best known for writing Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (2019), which was adapted to television miniseries Maid (2021) for Netflix. Her second memoir, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education (2023) explores the challenges of single parenting and poverty while attending college. Land has also written several articles about maid service work, domestic abuse and poverty in the United States.
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Between the Lives meets on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 2pm at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library in the 2nd Floor Workforce Development Classroom.
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