livingston, sonja

The author describes the poverty she endured as one of seven children raised by a single mother in western New York. Discusses how girls in particular suffered in the cycle of poverty, and how she barely escaped.

"Meditations on loss, poverty, and becoming a woman in late 1980s America, and what it means to be human"--.

Memoir of Sonja Livingston about her life as a woman growing up in the late 1980s and early 1990s in America, discussing what she thought it meant to be a woman in those days, as well as presenting stories of what she learned from women she studied throughout her life--including Susan B. Anthony, the Virgin Mary in her Roman Catholic tradition, and Ally McBeal.

The author shares her story of poverty and hunger growing up in western New York and the challenges she and her siblings faced.