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(More customer reviews)I dearly LOVE my Kindle, but this is one of those times when I wished I'd bought this as an actual book, because that way I could resell the book and get a little of my money back.
I thought this book should have been entitled "The Girls Guide to Bad Choices." It really has very little to do with the realities of being homeless, and frankly I'm not sure that choosing an alternative living arrangement is tantamount to being homeless. Plenty of people choose to RV full time; they generally don't consider themselves "homeless." I've known people who camped on the beach for months who didn't consider themselves homeless.
I kept wanting to call her and ask her why she was spending her hard-to-come-by money on trips and other things, instead of socking a bit of cash away. I kept wanting to ask her why she didn't move someplace with a slightly cheaper cost of living than Orange County. I get why she chose not to live with family, but I thought the telling of her family story was melodramatic and over-the-top.
Finally, I didn't feel like this was very well written. Her work is, in my opinion, rife with cliches, and I just wonder how accurate her telling of some of these anecdotes really is. Judging from some of the things I've read today (which I wish I'd read before I bought this book, alas) there's some indication that this could be the latest "Million Little Pieces" moment of 2011.
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Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream became reality. Karp loved her job as an executive assistant and signed the lease on a tiny cottage near the beach.And then the Great Recession hit. Karp, like millions of others, lost her job. In the six months between the day she was laid off and the day she was forced out onto the street, Karp scrambled for temp work and filed hundreds of job applications, only to find all doors closed. When she inherited a thirty-foot travel trailer after her father's suicide, Karp parked it in a Walmart parking lot and began to blog about her search for work and a way back.
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