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Title: Not Reality
Review: Like other reviewers, the author had resources to fall back on and she knew it was temporary and could quit at anytime. I was disappointed in this book mainly because I thought it would be more about stories of the people she met while working in minimum wage jobs. It was mostly about her and what she had to do to make ends meets, etc. I would have liked to read about REAL people who do this day in and day out with no end in sight. How do they manage to get up and do it all over again each day, knowing they'll never get ahead, never get a promotion, never make a decent living? I could never quite get into the author's shoes or feel any sympathy for her knowing she was playing a role and "pretending" to live like the other half. This is a good idea for a book, but needed to be written from the perspective of the low-wage workers...like interviews with them? How they perceive their jobs, how the future looks to them, how THEY manage to stay afloat?
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