Living Hand To Mouth In America
Writer and activist Linda Tirado has lived a lot of shabby apartments over the years. She’s dealt with greedy landlords, flooded apartments and bug infestations. As she writes in her memoir “Hand To Mouth: Living In Bootstrap America,” substandard housing is just a fact of life when you’re part of the working poor in America.
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