Like One of the Family : Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Paperback) 9780807009031

from sentimental13

A delightful reprint that didn't hold my attention as well as I had hoped, Like One of the Family takes a look at the lives of a woman who works as household help. I love the idea of brief vignettes although these tend toward monologues (not necessarily my favorite). Childress works to get to the...

from fields.steph

Like One of the Family is a collection of anecdotes or vignettes, depending on how you look at them. Mildred, the main character, tells her friend, Marge, about her life, about being a domestic worker, about friends visiting, about standing up for herself. Originally individually published in the...

from written

According to the back of the book it says this book was written more than six decades ago. I found this book still fresh, interesting, funny, made me think and quite easy to read since it is written in short chapters. You can read a few chapters or put the book down and go back to it later. But I...

from mdbrady

Light-hearted, feisty essays, by an African American woman, describing her work in the homes of others and commenting on events around her. Alice Childress (1916-1994) was an actress, playwright, and novelist who broke barriers for black women in the American theater. In her writing she focused a...

from BookDivasReads

I'm not sure if I just tried to read this at the wrong time or what, but I've tried several times now and simply couldn't get into this book. I enjoyed the forward and introduction a lot more than the actual body of the work. Perhaps my expectations were too high (or too low), I don't know, but t...