![]() ![]() ![]() The author never tries to pretty it up, and the reader can’t hide from her reality. The smells, filth, language, and hunger of her and her daughter’s life are everywhere. Carraway hides no detail of the degradation, which comes from her employers as much as her customers. Behind a wall, men ogle and “wank off” to her expanding body. Anyone who has ever wondered why someone in gut-wrenching poverty would add to their complications by procreating will be enlightened by Carraway’s longing.ĭetermined to earn the money required to rent a place before her baby is born, Carraway finds work at a peep show, a step down from her former life as a stripper. Even though she’s broke and her own parents were abusive as well, Carraway is desperate to have this baby, wanting a child to love and a family she can call her own. In some cases, it’s better in others, it definitely seems worse.Ĭarraway begins her book on the run from an abusive boyfriend, taking a pregnancy test in the feces-smeared bathroom of a moving train. ![]() Now British artist Cash Carraway has given readers a look at what life is like under the poverty line in Tory-run, austerity-focused London in her memoir Skint Estate. Biographies such as Educated, Hillbilly Elegy, Hand to Mouth, and the award-winning Evicted put faces and names to statistics – at least in the United States. Ever since Jeannette Walls released her memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005, books about growing up with poor, sometimes abusive, parents have been popular. ![]()
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