Sharon D. reviewed on 2/27/2007 + 224 more book reviews

Pulitze Prize-winning reporter David Zucchino spent a year sharing the lives of Odessa Williams and Cheri Honkala - two 'welfare mothers' in Philadelphia - to gain an initmate mook at their day-to-day extistence. Odessa, supporting an extended family, exhibits almost superhuman strength and resolve. Cheri, a single mother, is a tireless advocate for the homeless. Zucchino beautifully portrays them as figures of profound courage and quiet perseverance, systematically shattering all misconceptions and sterotypes about these women and so many others like them.

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