Hello Friends!
I’m back with another Book of the Month box for September. If you’re new, the Book of the Month box is a monthly book subscription where you get 1 credit for a book, and all additional books are only $9.99 extra. All books are hard covers (and if you’re a reader you know how expensive they can be lol). Books are curated monthly and they are often new or early releases of books in different genres, with the opportunity of choosing from past boxes and selections. If you’re interest in getting your own box to try it out (and also getting your 2nd book FREE!), click HERE to use my referral link 😀
My first book was part of the September books selection which is “This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger. The book is a “coming-of-age odyssey that’ll leave you in awe of the rawness of the Great Depression and the American Midwest.” A quick synopsis of the book, according to BOTM:
“1932 Minnesota – the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.
Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, “This Tender Land” is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.” (source)
From this description, I’m getting a Huckleberry Finn vibe in a more modern setting than Twain’s version. I am intrigued with this book and will be starting it first, and coming back with my review soon.
My second book selection was from the trending books section – “Maid” by Stephanie Land. “Maid” is an “eye-opening memoir about poverty, parenthood, and picking up after the wealthy.” An overview of the book states:
“While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work – primarily done by women – fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter’s head. In “Maid,” she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s inequitable society.
While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labor jobs, higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren’t being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans.
Written in honest, heart-rending prose and with great insight, “Maid” exlpores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost,” Stephanie writes. With this book, she gives voice to the “servant” worker, whose who fight daily to scramble and scrape for their own lives and the lives of their children.” (source)
So what do you guys think of my selection for this month? I’m looking forward to reading them and sharing my thoughts with you guys! 🙂
Until next time friends…XO!
Dose of Dalia 