Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education with Stephanie Land

Doors at 6 PM // Event starts at 6:30 PM

When Stephanie Land set out to write Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. The best-selling memoir (and inspiration for the hit Netflix series!) was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties.

Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has…