I loved Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed," where she lived on minimum wage and wrote about how tough it was to make ends meet. Now it turns out that this fall she'll have a new book, "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream," in which she does a similar thing for the white-collar unemployed -- takes a resume of a professional "in transition" and voluntarily puts herself through the hell that is struggling for employment. We're so vulnerable, in this world of costly homes and two-income families, almost any layoff-illness-other transition can bring us irretrievably down. I think her book will be fascinating.
And while I personally am not a giant fan of Francesca Lia Block's "Weetzie Bat" character, this August a 40-year-old Weetzie Bat returns in the new book "Necklace of Kisses."
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Thanks for the heads-up. I immensely enjoyed "Nickle and Dimed", (own a hard-cover copy), and I look forward to reading Ehrenreich's latest in September.
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