"Stephanie Land for President!"

Read more feedback on CLASS from all your favorite independent booksellers.

Hello Friends,

Advanced copies of CLASS are making their way out into the world, and it’s very exciting to see people reading and responding to it so well. If you’ve got your hands on an advanced copy, don’t forget to post a picture of it out in the wild. Stephanie loves to see this, and it definitely helps with the pre-book launch anxiety.

Booksellers are raving about CLASS too! Check out some of the feedback we’ve received:

"Told with brutal honesty, CLASS is about a single mother trying to live and educate herself while raising a small child, finding the complexities of navigating the system of assistance for those struggling to survive on just about nothing almost impossible. Yet, Land perseveres, determined to become a writer. She succeeds and accomplishes CLASS and her first book MAID. Read them both and her story will open your eyes to the inequity of our governmental system of helping the poor." - Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books

"I loved MAID, but CLASS is in a class of its own! (See what I did there?) Not just the author's story of her senior year in college while raising her daughter and working to support them, but a searing indictment of a system that punishes the poor for being poor and expects them to be grateful for any help they receive, no matter how many hoops needed to be jumped through in order to get it." - Susan Taylor, Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza

"An education in inequality and perseverance, you will never think of resilience in the same way again." - Anita Gett, Main Street Books

"Stephanie Land does it again! I liked this one just as much as her first! Set in Missoula, she talks about her journey as a college student while being a single mom! Couldn't put this one down!" - Derrick Brunner, The Well Read Moose

"This was a memoir I couldn’t put down! The author’s struggle to rise out of poverty while raising a child and trying to earn a college degree is so admirable and inspiring. I would love to see another follow up book to find out where her journey takes her!" - Lorilee Sugden, Linden Tree Bookstore

"Stephanie Land does it again. I dog-eared SO many pages to go back to share with my staff, my college-aged kids, and customers. Just like MAID, Stephanie forces us to second-guess our assumptions about poverty, single-parenting abuse, and the system within which she lived. Simultaneously heart-breaking and heart-warming, Land tells her story of being a young mother following her dreams, and I'm so glad she did so we can benefit from her story." - Julie Beddingfield, Inkwood Books

"Stephanie Land for president!" - Kasey Kane, Country Bookshelf

Preorder CLASS now from your favorite booksellers!

XOXO

Team Stephanie

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